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haps’ set fire to the building ; however after the gage of 
the cattle is known, there will be but little grass left: 
over, if proper attention be given and the quality is good. 
Labour appears too high in this country to admit of | 
cutting straw with the grass, but it is likely that the love 
of variety might induce the cattle to eat some of the 
best quality, if attentively given in small quantities, and 
it has been considered by some a useful corrector of the 
purgative properties of grass. 
The confined situation of the cattle in the yards, is 
peculiarly favourable to the prevention of loss from eat- 
ing green food too freely at first, but requires close at- 
tention for a few days in the beginning. When any of 
them appear rather full, they should be immediately 
placed where they can get nothing to eat or drink, and wis a 
if this fullness is followed by a restlessness discovered yr | 
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from unusual movements, particularly with their feet, 
and an extension of their tails as if straining to discharge 
the wind, and generally accompanied with a disposition 
to lay down, it then becomes immediately necessary to 
keep them in pretty smart motion, which enables them | 
to disengage large quantities of wind, which is some- 
times accompanied. with frequent discharges of dung, 
and when their flanks get lank, further attention at that 
time is unnecessary ; there were only two in my yards 
this year, with which I had scarcely any trouble. 
A little good first crop hay should be kept for feeding, 
when the weather is too bad to admit of cutting and 
bringing in grass, but during the whole feeding of last 
season, a resort to hay was not found necessary more 
than three times; a healthy Irishman who feared no 
weather, performed this work at 10-dollars per month, 
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