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farmer’s ufe, a fmaller and more active kind of 
horfes will not only ftep quicker, but will bear their 
work more hours ina day; and will keep up their 
flefh, not only with proportionably lefs food, but 
with that of an inferior kind. 
Error in cow fiock.—The cow frock of this diftric 
is not numerous enough to be a fubject of much 
animadverfion, with refpect to tts kind. 
The great error in this {tock is the fmallnefs of 
the quantily kept, the rage for fine fheep having al- 
moft driven the cow ftock out of the diftrié. 
South-Wiltfhire farms are not calculated to keep 
many cows, but the greater part of them would keep 
more than they do, efpecially fuch as have much 
down land; and that, if repeated experience may 
be relied on, without diminifhing the fheep ftock. 
Where there are water-meadows, cows are in- 
difpenfably neceffary to eat the after-grafs; and in 
winter they are always fo, to eat the barley ftraw, 
and make dung. There is always as much diftant 
Jand ona South-Wiltfhire farm as the fheep-fold 
can manure. The home arable fhould be manured 
with pot-dung, and more efpecially when in pre- 
paration for a turnip crop. . 
If cows were formerly thought fo ufeful, as to 
be reckoned indifpenfable on the farms of this dif- 
trict, they muft certainly be much more fo now, 
when their produce is worth, at leaft, one-third more 
than it was thirty years ago, 
Few 
