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foliage ; and confequently to the detriment 

 and ultimate ruin of the tree. 



SECTION VII. / 



Of CATTLE in Orchards. 



IT is a prevalent cuftom to pa/lure in 

 orchards. I difapprove of the practice. 

 It is too frequently the caufe of total ne- 

 glect of the fruit ; the trees being often 

 left unguarded, and confequenly much da- 

 maged by the cattle browfing on the 

 branches, and rubbing themfelves againft 

 the boles. 



Pa/luring of fheep is attended with equal- 

 ly bad (if not worfe) confequences ^ as no- 

 thing is more pernicious than the oil or 

 greafe, which exudes from their wool, in 

 rubbing themfelves ; which, if often re- 

 peated on the fame tree, and this is almoft 

 always the cafe, this animal inftinclively 

 following example, more than any other, 

 has the effect of completely clofing the 

 pores of the trunk fo rubbed, much to its 

 detriment. 



But 



