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future period. Besides these vegetable substances, 

 several earthy matters may sometimes be employed 

 with much benefit under the litter, such as reduced 

 peat earth, mould of the loamy kind from fresh 

 banks, different sandy materials, and other such bodies, 

 all of which are very powerfully acted upon and de- 

 composed by the various gaseous and other matters 

 which are formed and set at liberty during the decom- 

 position and reduction of the several littery substances 

 deposited in such feeding-yards. 



Application, Utility, and Particular Benefits of the 

 Practice.— lihi^ method of management is useful and 

 well suited for the keeping of neat cattle in general ; 

 but it is more particularly beneficial and better adapted 

 to some cases and circumstances than others. It is 

 quite suitable and convenient where the grass pasture 

 lands are of the more soft and poachy kind, and the 

 stock of the large and more heavy sorts, as tending to 

 such pasture grounds in that condition which is the 

 most desirable and advantageous, while at the same 

 time the cattle are well brought forward, kept, and 

 supported. The same is also the case where the ex- 

 tent of pasture is small, while that of the tillage is 

 large, and the quantity of neat cattle stock considerable, 

 as such stock can in this way be well supplied with 

 food from the arable part without having recourse to 

 the grass portion. Indeed, in cases where the lands 

 are wholly arable, this is probably the only practice 

 from which such great and extensive benefits and im- 

 provements can result, as furnishing the means of fur- 

 ther amelioration, and a more full and abundant pro- 

 duce, at the same time that the cattle stock are fed in 

 the best manner and kept in the most perfect con- 

 dition. 



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