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Sheep wototd have been, in many refpeU, 

 a much more advantageous flock for fueh a 

 farm than cc>ws; but then the artiele of 

 manure, required that the ftraw of a farm 

 ffiould be confuraed on it, as much dung is 

 thereby raifed; which, upon an arable 

 farm,, can only be done by cows, for beafts 

 will riot fat on clover. If the farm ie 

 fhuated where cattle can be had at joift in 

 the ftraw yard, that way of confuming the 

 flraw will be more advantageous than by 

 cows. 



Seed and tillage. 



I throw this farm, like the preceding ones 

 of the fame kind, into four parts; one, is 

 cropped every year with wheat ; another 

 with beans in drills for fallow; the third 

 with fpring-corn; and the fourth with 

 clover. The fprmg corn I divide into bar- 

 ley and oats > of the latter enough to feed 

 four horfeSi and the quantity I calculate as 

 follows. I fuppofe them to be fed. with 

 corn through the months of October, No- 

 vember, December, January, February, 

 March, April, and May ; there is no fort 

 of occafion (nor is it ever done as I at pre- 

 fent know) to give a horfe oats while he is 



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