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consideration, provided it should hereafter be found to 
answer all the purposes of breeding, rearing, and fatting 
animals, equally as well as grazing; but of this very 
little is known in this country, and as far as my infor- 
mation extends, not much in Europe: a few experi- 
ments either here or there, cannot, ought not to overturn 
established and well tryed practice, yet as I believe it 
will answer all those purposes, having this year expe- 
rienced no other difficulties than those arising from too 
scanty a su» ly of proper grasses, and have discovered 
none improper except red clover, and that only in cer- 
tain stages of its growth, I cannot but wish to see enter- 
prising farmers, who are in the habit of carefully in- 
specting the business of their farms, trying the expe- 
riment on a moderate scale: those who depend on others 
should not engage in it ; any industrious observing far- 
mer might without the least risk try it in a small way, if he 
only commences with his horse and working oxen, and 
has enough of proper grass, I will venture to pronounce 
positively that he will never pasture them again, while 
in his power to soil them in the yard: a trivial breadth 
of grass will support them, they will be always full and 
at hand, and the manure saved for his potatoe patch and 
corn hills, very considerable. 
If your society wishes further report on this subject 
I should be early informed, for it embraces such a va- 
riety of objects that it must of necessity be lengthy, and 
particularly as I conceive it ought to be accompanied 
with an abridgement of my farm accounts for this year, 
clearly stated and correctly balanced, to shew from them 
what bearing soiling has on the profits of the farm, and 
whether under a judicious management of cattle, those 
