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which he gives them lucern. He reckons, 



that any acre of his field would keep fix 



common cows through the Summer; but 



the moft profitable method of feeding it is 



with different forts of cattle at the fame 



time : accordingly he has conftantly in his 



penn a dairy of above thirty cows of his 



own, as many more belonging to other 



people, between twenty and thirty young 



heifers and bulls, ten or a dozen mules, 



many afles, and near an hundred head of 



fwine. I remarked, that fo many cattle, 



penned all Summer through, muft make a 



vaft quantity of dung, and afked him what 



he did with it, he replied, the penn was 



changed. He had three divifions : in one, 



the cattle fed and were littered this year ; 



in another the next ; and in another the 



third j that the dung in them was never 



touched till two years after making, nor 



any addition of frefli made to it ; for which 



reafon the change of penns was purfued : 



that, at the end of that time, it was fold to 



the cultivators of vineyards, and, when 



empty, the cattle brought back and fed in 



it as before, while that in the other penns 



is keeping in the fame manner. Every acre 



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