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water; the moisture of the potatoe will be found suf- 

 ficient. You may now begin to realize the value of 

 your potatoe fallows ; your beef-cattle will fatten 

 faster than in the usual method, upon meal and pro- 

 virider, and your corn may be saved over for the 

 spring and summer markets, which always com- 

 mands cash, and a good price. Your cattle kept for 

 labour, will pay you in their appearance, in their ex- 

 tra labour, and in the saving of your hay, if you 

 give them one peck a head each day. Your cows, 

 also, will repay you in their milk, as well as in their 

 appearance, and saving of hay, if you give each one 

 a peck of potatoes each day : but this is not all, they 

 will make you more butter from the same milk, and 

 pay double the next summer in your dairy*. 



I have before me an experiment upon fattening 

 beef, published by Mr. Nathan Landon, -of Lfich- 

 field ; in which he states, that he fattened an ox, and 

 a three year old heifer, without either corn, or pota- 

 toes, for a less expense than even a common feeding, 

 and in the following manner, viz, u I boiled about 

 two quarts of flax-seed,* and sprinkled on to cut 

 straw, .which had been previously scalded, and sea- 

 soned with salt, together with some oil-cake, and 

 oat-meal ; working them in a tub, with a short pitch- 

 fork, until the whole became an oily mush. I fed 

 the heifer regularly in this way, about two months, 

 when she had eaten about one bushel of flax-seed, 

 with the other ingredients in proportion. When she 

 was butchered, she weighed 584lbs. ; 84lbs. of which 

 was tallow. She would not have sold for more than 



* One acre of potatoes properly fed out to your stock, will afford 

 you manure to dress two acres well the next year ; the profits on 

 your stock, and on your extra crops, from your extra manure and 

 tillage, will be your second profit ; the increased value of your land, 

 will be your third profit ; and again, the increased quantity of stock this 

 will enable you to keep, and thus, in a chain, augment your wealth, 

 together with the value of your farm, will be a constant profit ; this 

 may not only be witnessed 'in the case of Mr. Bake well, but in the- 

 case of every farmer who will practise it. Try and sec. 



