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days after they had been ufed to Mangel-Wurzel) 
he reduced the eight cows’ daily allowance to two 
barrows-full of each, and their preference to Man- 
gel-Wurzel was evident; they were houfed in the 
nights, (as my cows always are till they go to grafs) 
and had generally fome of my worft hay, chiefly 
the ftalks from which fainfoin feed had been 
threfhed, but were racked with ftraw when I could 
fpare it. The grafs they ate could not be placed 
to much account, as the fpace they were folded on 
was lefs than an acre, which [ increafed a little at a 
time, as it became neceflary, to give them the roots 
clear of their dung. 
My crop of 1792, I fowed as I had done that of 
1791, with Cooke's patent Drilling Machine, to 
enable me to hoe between the rows before the plants 
were large enough to fingle out, by which I had 
faved the chief of my crop of 1791; and as the 
feed is yet at a price to make {paring it an object, 
I wifhed to try how little would do, and ufed fun- 
nels of a fize to receive the feed from two boxes, 
and fow it in drills 22 inches afunder. Having 
been told that the cups he had calculated for this 
feed were fo deep and narrow, that the feeds ftuck 
in them, I filled all the wheat cups but three, at 
equal diftances in each box, quite full of wax, and 
put a patch of paper over each to keep the feed 
from fticking, in cafe the fun fhould foften it; and 
thefe I filled fo nearly full as to leave only a femi- 
circular 
