116 HAY HARVEST. 



I can see no impracticability in it, it is obvi 

 ous it would give the States farmer a command 

 of manure within his farm equal to his occa 

 sions. At all events, there should certainly 

 be no difficulty in tying up the whole of his 

 young stock, or stock not put up for fattening, 

 in close sheds, and there treating them in the 

 manner mentioned thus not only keeping 

 them much better than is consistent with the 

 existing cruel mode of treating them during 

 winter, but also making them, so to speak, ma 

 nufacturers of much valuable manure. 



Besides, I should say the occasional use of 

 turnips or potatoes or other succulent food, al 

 ternately with the meal of Indian corn, and 

 cut clover-hay, would be beneficial in exciting 

 and keeping alive the appetite of the stall-fed 

 cattle, and of consequence accelerating their 

 fattening. 



Mr SheafFis now in the midst of harvesting 

 his hay which in some of his fields consists 

 entirely of clover ; in others a mixture of 

 clover and Timothy-grass, which he tells me is 

 much prized as food for horses. I should 



