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a load, building flacks with itj — ^ahd I had five 

 waggon loads of ftubble left from laft year. 



My cattle confifted of 6 horfes, 4 cows, and a 

 yearling, befides hogs. The cows were kept tied 

 up under a fhed, and regularly littered with ftub- 

 ble or fern ; but I Ihould obferve, that I gave them 

 fo much room that it was not neceflary to clean and 

 litter every day, as is common ; for if they are con- 

 fined to a fpot, they lie too dirty without it; but 

 by giving them room to turn about, they were kept 

 quite clean by only fupplying them with frefli lit- 

 ter, and the whole cleaned out once a week. This 

 I did that the manure might be the better, from 

 receiving and retaining fo much the more urine; 

 nor did I throughout the winter perceive the cattle 

 the lead prejudiced by this method. 



I kept the yard littered about fix inches deep 

 with fern to foak up the urine, and alfo to be made 

 dung by the hogs, the only loofe cattle; this was 

 cleaned up once a fortnight. 



Thus the yard, the cow-fhed, the hog-fties of 

 fows and fatting hogs, and the ftables, were all 

 cleaned into three-wheeled fmall carts, and piled 

 regularly on the foundation of earth, until the heap 

 was about {even feet high ; and when one was filled 

 up, another foundation adjoining was made. 



And 



