Cultivation of Arabic Land. Red Clover After ^management of. S65 



It would therefore, on the whole, appear the mod beneficial method, where the 

 pasturing of this crop either in the fpring or autumn is had recourfe to, not to 

 fuffe - the lands to he fed upon when in a moid Hate, or to be too hard flocked, or 

 with the heavier fort of animals at any time. 



But in the feeding down of clovers, there is not only danger of injuring the 

 plants, but the animals that confume them. Without proper management, cattle 

 and other animals on being turned upon them often differ great inconvenience, 

 and are in danger of being deftroyed by the vaft diftenfion of their ftornachs which 

 rakes place. Jr. this fituation the animals are in the language of the farmer faid to 

 be blown or haven. The nature of the difeafe does not flern to be much invefligated : . 

 but it probably arifes in confequence of the large quantity of green fucculent her 

 bage being greedily devoured without due maftication, by which ii undergoes an 

 uncommon degree of fermentation in the ftomach ; and from this fudden decom- 

 pofition, an unufual quantity of gafeous fluid is at once fet at liberty, which 

 ultimately overcomes the contractile power of the digeftive organ, and the animal is ; 

 deftroyed; The fuppofition is rendered more probable from the circumftance of 

 the affection being lefsapt to take place when the clovers or any other fimilar her 

 bage are fed upon in a dry ftate, as the flock in thefe cafes are not able to confume. 

 them in fo expeditious a manner or in fo large a proportion. 



OH thefe principles, therefore, the practice of not fuffering the cattle or other 

 forts of flock to feed upon them when they are wet, and there is a full bite, would 

 feem to be perfectly correct. The advice of not turning the animals upon the 

 crops before the fun hasdiflipated the dew and moifture depolited in the night is 

 likewife judicious, and ought to be attended to, as well as that of keeping them in 

 motion as much as poffible when fir ft turned in With (beep the fame precau 

 tions may be neceffary, if they be put upon them with the other -flock in their full 

 growth : but when they are turned in after they have in fome degree been fed down, , 

 there will be little danger of their being injured. Where the clovers are eaten off as 

 after-grafs in their foft, foggy, and young (late of .growth, there is however great- 

 danger of the flock being hurt in this way, unlefs thefe circumflances be attended to. 



Various means of removing the difeafe, when the animals happen to be affected 

 have beenpropofed, fuch as common flrong fait and water; and new milk and tar in 

 the proportion of about half an egg-fhell full. This lafl is afferted to afford imme 

 diate relief on its reaching the ftomach.* The ftabbing the animal in the flank 

 clofe to the hip-bone, with a fnarp penknife, foas to avoid wounding the inteftines, . 



* Modern Agriculture, vol. II.: 



