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printers, and the high price they offered for 

 it caused it to be cleared from the pastures 

 and meadows extensively. This practice is 

 still continued, but, where permitted, bone- 

 dust dressings, pari passu, should repair the 

 injury. It is indispensable at the printing- 

 works for fastening their colours ; and the 

 manure produced by horned cattle fed with 

 any other provender than grass, corn, and hay, 

 or otherwise than with simple food, will not 

 suit their purpose. 



