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fiay on each field could be weighed before 

 flacked, or put into a rick. 



It would naturally occur to the judges, to 

 take proper methods for afcertaining which 

 was the beft crop, both of corns and grafs. 



It may be very difficult to afcertain which 

 is the moft valuable field for pafture ; but the 

 fureft way would be to weigh all the cattle 

 before they went into each field, and to be 

 certain that they have neither got meat nor 

 water for twelve hours before weighed ; and 

 to weigh them after the whole pafture was 

 confumed, at the latter end of the feafon, 

 provided they flood twelve hours without 

 meat and drink, before they were taken out 

 of the field. 



The lafl years pafture, before the ground 

 was broke up for oats, would be the moft e- 

 qual way for afcertaining which field was of 

 greateft value. 



By fubtracling the weight of the lean cattle 

 when they went into the field, from the 

 weight of the fame cattle when they went out, 

 would mow the increafe of weight of the cat- 

 tle in each field. 



To know the beft methods to improve paf- 

 ture 



