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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 

 our 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 

 of that country; but such as was to me no 



