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attention to flock our paflures with the bell grafs, and to 

 keep the cattle out of them at improper feafons, a larger ftock 

 may be maintained on the fame quantity of ground in this 

 State, than in England ; and thus the difference in the length 

 of our winter be amply compenfkted. This obfervation leads 

 me to a circumflance in Britifh hufbandry, which might be 

 advantageouily pradifed by us — Many of their farmers fow 

 rye for the ufe of their fheep and iambs in the fpring ; in order 

 to this they muft be at the expence of a fallow, and as their 

 rye grows two fifths flower than ours, it mufl follow that 

 they can only keep three fheep, where we may have five. If 

 therefore this practice is advantageous in England, it would 

 be much more fo in America, to fow our corn fields with 

 rye, to feed oS with flieep in the fpring, not only becaufe of 

 the additional numbers that we can keep, but becaufe we are 

 more pinched for fheep-food in the fpring ; befides that the 

 rye that cofls the Britifli farmer a complete fallow, cofts us 

 nothing but the feed, if fown . among the corn when it is 

 topped ; and as five fheep will leave more manure than three, 

 the rye field fo fed down, will be left in better order here by 

 this praftice, than it would in Britain. — In the healthfulnefs 

 of our ftock we have alfo great advantages over Britain. 

 Among our black cattle I have been told that fome diforders 

 prevail, though they are fo extremely rare, that in twenty 

 years fmce I commenced farming, I do not recolle(5t to have 



