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Ten acres will carry fifty oxen or cows . 

 twenty acres an hundred, which are a vaft 

 flock of cattle for fo fmall a fpacc of ground. 



If clover is thus mown, and given to 

 fvvine in ftyes, he has found that an acre 

 will keep, through the Summer, thirty large 

 hogs; if they did not make much wafte, it 

 would fupport near fifty, but they make 

 much into dung. It before appeared, that 

 an acre of potatoes will carry twenty-four 

 fuch fwine through the Winter ; we may 

 fay, an acre and one fifth of an acre will 

 carry thirty : and then two acres and 

 one-fifth fupports thirty of thefe large 

 hogs through the whole year, which would 

 be a prodigious acquifition to the farmers, 

 who, in their prefent methods, cannot keep 

 Julf fo many upon a middling farm. 



I objeifted to thefe fmall trials, that they 

 were managed fo carefully, that probably 

 they would not anfwer equally in large; 

 but he would not admit that : he faid, if 

 the fame expence in dung, tillage, and 

 cleaning was beftowed in large, the plants 

 muft certainly be the fame; but this ap- 

 peared to me too great a difficulty, almofl 

 unpradicable. There is, however, much 



ingenuity 



