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to keep them on. I thought my cattle 

 would eat in one month all the clover that 

 I had yet seen, to keep them as we keep 

 cur cattle in England. I therefore sent 

 them to Mr. Rozer, and one of my sons 

 to take care of them, as he proposed to give 

 me hay and blades for nothing, — the corn 

 and bran I was to pay for. Another gen- 

 tleman, named Ricketts, who had a mill 

 about a mile from the town of Alexandria, 

 offered me in the same manner hay for my 

 horses ; this I readily accepted, and sent 

 my other son with them. This last gen- 

 tleman had a small field of timothy; which 

 was so situated as to be watered, and cut a 

 great deal of hay ; and the horses fattened 

 very much on it, with only the cost of 

 four pounds ten shillings currency for three 

 months' corn : — a circumstance which gave 

 me proof of the great efficacy of timothy- 

 hay for horses, and this opinion I still retain. 

 Mr. Ricketts had a great quantity of land 

 in Kentucky, and he gave me some account 

 pf that country; but such as was to me no 



