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to, and more perfect in consequence of their feeding 

 in a less interrupted and inconvenient manner ; and 

 their being shaded more fully and effectually from the 

 too great heat of the sun, as well as their being better 

 protected and more free from the attacks of insects 

 and flies. On all these accounts, there can be no 

 doubt, it has a great superiority over the common 

 mode of letting the stock range in all directions upon 

 the pastures. It has been well noticed, that if the 

 food or plants and the consumption of them in this 

 practice be a matter of much regard, it is plain that 

 the benefits and advantages to be thence derived will 

 be of very great and material importance. Since long 

 experience has proved, in the most clear and satis- 

 factory manner, that such sorts of cattle will eat with 

 much avidity many grasses and plants when cut by 

 the scythe, and given to them in such places that they 

 never would touch while growing in the field or pas- 

 ture ; and that whatever may be the cause of it, they 

 eat them, not only without showing any signs of dis- 

 like, even if they are not presssed by hunger, but they 

 frequently devour with much greediness, such food 

 and plants, as soon as they have been brought in from 

 the field or pasture where they were feeding, and be- 

 fore they could possibly have had time to become 

 hungry. It is well known, too, that some of the finer 

 grasses and other plants, which, when young, are most 

 palatable, as the food of such cattle are, if once suffered 

 to get into ear, so much disliked by them, that they 

 will never taste them unless forced by extreme hunger; 

 consequently, as in most pastures many of such 

 grasses and plants get into ear from different causes, 

 their produce in such cattle food must be inevitably 

 lost ; whereas, if they be cut down by the scythe in 

 proper time, not a single plant of such gr..sses will be 



