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green food, many more perfons, efpecially gentlemen 

 who farm, are getting into the method of flail-feeding 

 than formerly ; and this year, from the plenty of food, 

 there are more in that way than ever were known. The 

 advantage of this management once underflood, will 

 enfure the continuation of it, and likewife a fupply of , 

 meat in the markets in fpring, which has hitherto been 

 rather fcanty. 



The bed hay with oats in flieaf, potatoes either 

 boiled or raw, but previoufly fliced, form the general 

 food for keeping cattle to their flefh, or for increafing 

 it. A variety of food, or at leafl fo adminiflered as in 

 the courfe of the day to make a variety, feems one of 

 the befl incentives to their eating the greatefl quantity 

 of food in a given time ; which is fuppofed very much 

 to abridge the period of their fattening, and, confe- 

 quently, the expenfe. Dr. Anderfon fays, a horfe, of 

 the fame weight as a bullock, will eat in the fame fpace 

 of time one-third more food ; but he will be as fat in 

 one month as the bullock will be in three : on this 

 datum, a horfe will be fattened exactly with one-half 

 of the food it will take to fatten a bullock. He men- 

 tions,a Mr. Hope, who by procuring the moft palatable 

 food for his cattle, and by this means inducing them to 

 eat the greatefl quantity in a given time, makes more 

 money than any of his neighbours, who are not in the 

 fecret, and more niggardly in their outlayings than 

 he is. 



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