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Pace 317. “ Lord Cathcart’s Letter to the Agricul- 
“tural Society in Scotland. 
_“ THE fowing of whins for feeding of cattle takes 
“ mightily about London now; the thin dry foil, that is 
“ good for nothing elfe, they manage in the fame way as for 
“ fown grafs; but, in place of that, they fow it in the {pring 
“‘ with whin feed. They mow the whins that fummer, 
“and continue to do fo yearly thereafter. They reckon 
“ one acre produces at the rate of ten loads or ten tons, 
“ 20 cwt. each; this they ftack up. They haye a-contr}- 
“vance for chopping them, and they commonly cut at 
“€ once as much as ferves their cattle for two days; a gen- 
« tleman who has tried them, aflures me, that all his horfes 
§* of every kind,’ as well for draught as for riding, eat them 
“as readily as they do hay; and he thinks them as gaod 
“ feeding. This improvement comes from Wales, where 
sit has been practifed thefe hundred years.” 
Pace 319. “ Directions by Major Henbury, in Wales, 
for sowing Whin Seed, and using the Whins, com- 
- © municated to the Society by General Abercromby, 
© of Glassock. 
. *° THEY fhould be fowed in February, March, or 
s April; 6Jb. will fow an acre. The place where they are 
“ fowed muft be made very free of grafs, and all forts of 
“cattle muft be kept out. One acre will produce fifteen 
“ tons, which will feed as far as fifteen tons of hay. The 
time to begin to cut them is in O&tober or fooner. They 
« will continue to grow till Chriftmas, and be fit for ufe till 
* March, When vou give them to the horfes, they mutt 
* be bruifed by a mill, or otherwife be pounded, and given 
“in a day after they are bruifed; if you give any chopped 
“ ftraw 
