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and mixed with provinder for horses, or mixed with 

 boiled flax-seed for fattening beef-cattle, as will be 

 shown by Mr. Landon of Litchfield. All these modes 

 of using straw, fully show its value as an object of 

 importance to the careful farmer 5 but the improve- 

 ment of Mr. Landon, gives it a value of the first im- 

 portance. When straw is used for litter, either for 

 hogs, or cattle, or horses, it is generally allowed that 

 one ton (the usual product of one acre of wheat or 

 rye) will produce four tons of manure ; this will dress 

 one acre of corn, or potatoes, in the hill, and thus 

 give a profit on the crops of 10 or 15 dollars ; where- 

 as 5 dollars may be considered as a fair market price 

 for straw for feeding: leaving a balance in favour of 

 littering, of 5 to 10 dollars, besides the benefit from 

 the warmth derived by the cattle and horses : allow- 

 ing the increased value of the land to pay for carting, 

 &c. By this value of straw, when used for litter, 

 may be seen the value of stubble when mown, and 

 carted into the hog-pen, or barn-yard, or even housed 

 for litter for the winter ; the undergrowth which gene- 

 rally may be mown with the stubble, will both in- 

 crease the quantity and vakie of the stubble, for litter, 

 if applied in its green state to the hog- pen, or barn- 

 yard, or even cured and housed for the winter's litter. 

 The difference between the value of such stubble, 

 when mown and used as above, and when left to waste 

 on the ground, will not admit of a comparison. Try 

 it and see. Although the practice of ridging in stub- 

 ble and its undergrowth, immediately after harvest, 

 may be accounted good husbandry, especially when 

 labour is difficult to be obtained, yet if the farmer 

 can find time to collect his stubble as above, he will 

 always find it to his interest, provided it be done im- 

 mediately after harvest, before the straw has suffered 

 waste. 



Tillage. 



Should you have been under the necessity of driv- 

 ing your arable lands too fast with Indian-corn, or 



