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cows and horfes in fummer : In a word, 

 all parts of a farm of this fize afford to each 

 other a mutual affiftance. I mould remark 

 that I make cows the flock, and not fheep, 

 upon account of having a winter-flock for 

 the flraw : Allotting qo cows to be princi- 

 pally fed upon clover, will alarm many 

 farmers not ufed to fuch hufbandry ; all I 

 can fay to them is, that I know many farms 

 whereon dairies of cows are kept, that 

 have not a fmgle acre of grafs; but the 

 10 acres in the farm in queflion is a full 

 anfwer to fuch objections as the farmers, 

 in fuch countries as admit but a partial ufe 

 of clover, allow it to be an excellent food 

 for cows, if they are lodged every night in 

 a natural grafs field. However the objec- 

 tion j even if it had weight in general, would 

 have none here, as the great point is the 

 product of the clover, which will not yield 

 lefs than I have flated, be it managed as it 

 may : and, in breeding countries, there is no 

 neceflity of applying it to the dairy *. 



* The reader doubtlefs remarks that I have left out 

 houfe-keeping in this account : It is now time to drop 

 that article, for reafons too numerous to infert : It is too 

 various now to calculate. 



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