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SO well again for several days after it. The sides of 

 the house where they are lodged, need not be very 

 tight. It might be apt to make them too tender. It 

 will certainly abate the freshness of the air they 

 breathe in, and hurt the agreeable flavor of their fod- 

 der. But the covering of their house should be per- 

 fectly tight. No window should be open, through 

 which snow or rain may drive in upon them. The 

 floor they lie on should have a gentle descent back- 

 ward, that they may be wetted as little as possible by 

 their stale ; and they should always have straw or 

 litter under them, not only to soften their lodging, but 

 to lay them the more warm and dry, and absorb the 

 wetness. The better they are littered, the more ma- 

 nure will the owner make for his farm. This is an 

 object of high importance. 



It would be a good method for cattle that are tied 

 up, to fodder them in racks. They would not be so 

 apt to rob one another ; nor to get their fodder under 

 their feet ; nor to render it unpalateable by their 

 breathing upon it. 



Where salt hay can be had, cattle should now and 

 then be treated with a little of it. It will so increase 

 their appetite, that they will eat poor meadow hay and 

 straw with it, or after it. But farmers who are far 

 from the sea, and not furnished with salt hay, should 

 now and then sprinkle some of their meanest fodder 

 with salt dissolved in water, which will answer the 

 same valuable purpose. And at no season of the year 

 should cattle be kept for any long time, without salt. 

 They are greedy, after, and it conduces to keep them 

 in health. 



, As to summer feeding, it is not fit that a whole 

 stock go promiscuously in the same pasture. Some 

 would be overmuch fed, and some not enough. A 

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