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lefted together, ready to be. applied to any purpofe the 

 farmer may wifh, not fcattered promifcuoufly about 

 the land, where it does more harm in fpoiling the 

 grafs, than fervice in enriching the ground ; for, as 

 ' Dr. Anderfon obferves, if land was enriched by the 

 dung of cattle going upon it, it would every year be 

 able to maintain a greater number than each preceding 

 one ; which is not the cafe. At the fame time that 

 I perfectly coincide with Dr. Anderfon, from whom I 

 have taken feveral of the above remarks, in the be- 

 nefits of feeding cattle in the houfe, I fhould not wifli 

 entirely to confine them to it ; but to give them pro- 

 bably half, or one-third of the ground to go on, that 

 without feeding in the houfe would be required, and 

 make out what would be wanting by mowed grafs ; 

 thus uniting air and exercife with a conftant fupply of 

 frefh food ; and a proper fhelter when required, either 

 from the heat and infefts, ojr the heavy rains and chil- 

 ling blafts that often occur. 



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