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ably fond of them. Marftial fays the Norfolk farmers 

 fpeak in raptures of oats and turnips for calves ; I have 

 found them good, but inflead of turnips I give cut kail, 

 or cabbage, which they can manage more eafily at the 

 beginning : raw potatoes are alfo very good. 



SECT. 2. Horfes. 



THE number of horfes bred in the county of Down, 

 is not by any means fufficient to fupply its own con- 

 fumption ; befides thofe employed in the neceflary ope- 

 rations of hufbandry, numbers are required for the 

 purpofes of trade, in conveying the different imports, 

 in difperfing them through the country, and in mount- 

 ing thofe ' perfons, who are engaged in the principal 

 manufactures. The breeding counties to the weft af- 

 ford what are fufficient ; they are either brought by 

 dealers to the fairs, or thofe who have occafion go 

 themfelves to the markets, in the neighbourhood of 

 which they are foaled ; they are bought of every age, 

 from one to fix years old, according to the inclination 

 or the. purfe of the purchafer. The fmall farmers, who 

 only keep a horfe for a few months during the plough- 

 ing feafon, buy young ones, which they fell generally 

 at fome advance of price to thofe, who can keep them 

 through the fummer and enfuing year, when, if of a 

 fufficient age and in good order, they are re-fold to 

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