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be turned out two or three times in the day into the 

 yards, in order that they may indulge more fully in 

 their natural habits, that their desire for food may be 

 sharpened, and the danger of being disgusted or cloyed 

 with it avoided ; by which regulation, they will feed 

 or take on flesh and fat in a more ready manner, and 

 the process of fattening be more expeditiously and 

 perfectly eflected. 



The large breed of short-horned cattle are generally 

 the most proper in this intention, and stand the prac- 

 tice in the best manner. 



Modes of Feeding in this way. — In winter fattening 

 beasts of the neat-cattle kind, there are several different 

 methods pursued in different districts and parts of the 

 country ; in some (in the more southern parts es- 

 pecially,) it is a common practice to have food, when 

 of certain root sorts, eaten by the stock, upon some 

 perfectly sound, dry, and convenient portion of sward 

 and stubble land, to which it is taken for the purpose. 

 This method can, however, be only made use of in 

 cases where such sorts of lands to some extent pre- 

 vail, and where the smaller sorts of such stock are 

 employed, as there are but few instances of ground 

 being so free from wetness at this time of the year as 

 not to be greatly injured and broken up by the tread- 

 ing of heavy cattle. Less perfect managers in some 

 places, leave the crops of such kinds so as to be eaten 

 by the cattle on the land, but which, in all cases, is a 

 bad and wasteful practice. The method which is the 

 most useful, and attended with the most advantage, 

 is, therefore, in all probability, that of feeding the cat- 

 tle in the stalls or shed-houses, connected with suitable 

 yards for turning them into occasionally as may be ne- 

 cessary ; though that of confining them wholly to the 

 "tails is in the most common use, as in all the ways 



