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compofe the bulk of the pafture-land, except about 

 towns, where generally there is fome attention paid to 

 the fowing of hay-feeds, but rarely clover. 



It is a univerfal practice to let in cattle among pota- 

 toes, fome time before the ftalks are withered. A 

 more deftruftive fyftem cannot be conceived, as the 

 lofs in the crop, by adhering to this method, muft be 

 always confiderable. The root is never at maturity fo 

 long as the {talk continues green ; befides, the cattle 

 tread the land to fuch a degree, that frequently a great 

 part of the crop is expofed, and, if it fhould efcape the 

 froft, is, notwithftanding, otherwife materially injured. 

 The foil is alfo rendered {['iff by the cattle walking 

 over it, which, of courfe, muft always encreafe the 

 expence of digging out the potatoes. Add to this, that, 

 if the land be retentive, or inclined to clay, water will 

 lodge in every impreffion made by the feet of cattle, 

 which, in a fliort time, will caufe the crop to rot. 



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SECT. 2. Brd of CattU-hw f a r improved. 



THERE is very little variation in the breed of black 

 cattk, and efpecially in the mountainy parts of the 

 county. They are of various colours and (hapes, bur 

 generally fraall, as heavy ftock could not fubfift upon 

 the fcanty fare of our mountains, being principally 



young 



