216 On feeding Cattle tvith green Food. 



creased produce of land benefits the public in too obvious & 

 manner to enlarge upon. It benefits the landlord, by his 

 being able, at the expiration of certain fair intervals, to raise 

 the rent of his farm ; and the tenant or occupier, by getting 

 more profit from a given quantity of land, and with nearly 

 a given capital. 



I have recommended turnips once in three yc-ars, because 

 I think land requires cleaning once in that time, and be- 

 cause it is thus effected without losing the benefit of a crop 

 in any year. 



Much has been latelv said about the superior advantage 

 of -cattle over horses in farmers' teams. I think some horses 

 must be kept for tlii; farmer to take his grain to market, 

 and tp carry his coal and lime. If he is so near a large 

 town that he can draw at least two load of dung in a day, 

 he will also want them for that purpose. Other team-work 

 ma\^ very well be done by cattle. But I think cows are 

 much more useful and beneficial than oxen, and that it 

 would be an advantage to the kingdom if few or no oxen 

 were reared. The uses of cattle are tp work, milk, and 

 feed. I have seen barren cows work as well as oxen ; they 

 require less keep, and walk faster. Oxen are of no use to 

 the dairy, and they will not feed so fast as cous. 



When first I commenced farmer T followed the example 

 of my predecessor, in feeding chiefly oxen; but I soon 

 found that cows fed much faster and on less meat, and for 

 some vears past have carefully avoided having any oxen in 

 my stalls. 



Meadows. < 



It should be considered as a great object of every land- 

 lord, or his steward, to procure watered or flooded m^ea- 

 dows. ' 



The best means of doing this is, to place the farm-yard 

 on such an eminence of the farm that a stream can be pro- 

 cured to run through it, and afterwards over the greatest 

 quantity of meadow land. 



Common meadows ought to be well manured once in 

 three years, and will then produce one ton and a half of 

 hay per acre, and a pasture from the middle of Septerriber 

 to Christmas. 



Good watered meadows will bear to be grazed from the 

 beginning or middle of August till May following, and will, 

 between that time and hay harvest, produce one-fourth of 

 hay more than the other. 



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