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and, in favourable feafons, to the latter end of No- 

 vember. 



I have often heard this fubjeft talked over by the 

 better informed people, whether it be wifer economy 

 to have the cattle houfed in the fummcr feafon, as 

 above ftated, or let them remain out altogether. There 

 might be many reafons given for and againft both fides 

 of the queftion ; but I believe, by weighing all ma- 

 turely, that houfing is the beft economy. The other 

 mode, perhaps, in fome inflances, might be found beft, 

 but this fhould be chiefly underftood for the neigh- 

 bourhood of towns ; but the misfortune is, that the in- 

 habitants of fuch places fcarcely ever pay the leaft at- 

 tention to the manure of cattle, by collecting it frefh, 

 fhortly after it falls from them, and before it becomes 

 too dry, which renders it entirely unfit for the pur- 

 pofes of munure. This neglecl: is the chief caufe of 

 the numerous rank and infipid tufts of grafs we meet 

 about towns, and other parts, where this bufinefs is 

 not fully attended to. Some, however, break and fcat- 

 ter the dung when it becomes dry, but this is of little 

 or no ufe, as it then becomes quite exhaufted, and the 

 rank tufts are not prevented from taking place. 



With refpecT to the feeding of horfes, the fame ad- 

 vantage, as far as relates to manure, cannot be obtain- 

 ed, as from black cattle, fince the manner of feeding is 

 more precarious. When not at work, the horfe is ge- 

 Herally fpancelled, or tied by a rope to a ftake, on the 



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