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ftraw, and being good, I have fed all my horles 

 with it, and they perform their work well, but then 

 they have a regular allowance either of carrots 

 or oats. 



The fifteen head of cattle ate ten trufles of ftra\v 

 every day; befides what is ufed to litter the fwine. 



Feb. 19th, made another foundation with thirty- 

 fix loads of earth. The 24th, bought a load and 

 a half of ftraw more ; March 9th, as much more. 

 At this time, turned over all the dunghill, except 

 the laft divifion, defigning it for potatoes. Put it 

 out to the men on the fame terms as laft year, tQ 

 turn over, fill, and fpread. 



While this work was performing, I had an op- 

 portunity of obferving the effed: of throwing up 

 the drainings of the yard, which I had regularly 

 performed ; one fide of the hill was not near wa- 

 tered fo much as the other, owing to its being more 

 diftant from the lovyer part of the yard that re- 

 tained the drainings; in that part of the heap the 

 dung was not equally rotten, nor had it that putrid 

 moifture difcernible in much of the latter. Let 

 me alfo obferve, that the parts which confifted 

 moftly of fern, were much founder, though of dou- 

 ble the age, than, othiers whici) C9J]fj|l^d of i^raw. 



March 



