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commend, is intended as a substitute, when the far- 

 mer has no clover, timothy, or other kind of grass of 

 his own raising. When you cut your wild grass, 

 you should be sure not to cure it too much. I would 

 recommend you to take it the next day after it is cut, 

 if the weather is favorable, and have it stacked ; and 

 while stacking, to put a layer of hay and then a 

 sprinkle of salt, and so on, until you have put away 

 the quantity you desire. If the weather should prove 

 wet, and you should be disappointed in curing your 

 hay, and you should not have enough to serve your 

 stock through the winter, I would recommend anoth- 

 er mode of preparing and providing yourself with 

 another kind of hay, which has seldom been thought 

 of; it is equal to the best hay if properly attended to 

 and cured. It is the leaves of all trees, of which 

 cattle are fond, in a green state. Take the boughs of 

 the Lombardy Poplar, of the Maple, and of most of 

 the bushes in the woods and branch, while they are 

 green; carry them to a place where they can be cu- 

 red and stacked like timothy hay. A ton of this kind 

 of hay is worth a ton of timothy, as food for stock. 

 Cattle are known to leave green clover to eat the 

 leaves of the Mulberry, which can be easily cur- 

 ed, and on which cattle will thrive. The experi- 

 ment has been tried, and is, therefore, no matter of 

 speculation. 



You should not take too many branches off of one 



tree, lest the tree should be injured. The branches 

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