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liorses. When the first lot is thus 

 fed off, it should be shut up, and the 

 dung that has been dropped should 

 be beat to pieces, and well scatter- 

 ed. Afterwards, the second pas- 

 ture should be treated in the same 

 manner, and the rest in course, 

 feeding the wettest pasture after 

 the driest, that the soil may be less 

 potched. 



Something considerable is saved 

 by letting all sorts of grazing ani- 

 mals take their turn in a pasture. 

 By means of this, nearly all the her- 

 bage produced will be eaten ; much 

 of which would otherwise be lost. 

 Horses will cat the leavings of 

 horned cattle ; and sheep will eat 

 some things that both the one and 

 the other leave. 



But if in a course of pasturing, 

 by means of a fruitful year, or a 

 scanty stock of cattle, some grass of 

 a good kind should run up to seed, 

 and not be eaten, it need not be re- 

 gretted ; for a new supply of seed 

 will fill the ground with new roots, 

 which are better than old ones. 

 And 1 know of po grass that never 

 needs renewing from the seed. 



A farmer needs not to be told, 

 that if he turn swine into a pasture, 

 they should have rings in their no- 

 ses, unless brakes and other weeds 

 need to be rooted out. Swine may 

 do service in this way. They 

 should never have the first of the 

 feed ; for they will foul the grass, 

 and make it distasteful to horses 

 and cattle. 



Let the stock of a farmer be 

 greater or less, he should have at 

 least four enclosures of pasture 

 land. One enclosure may be fed 

 two weeks, and then shut up to 



grow. Then another. Each one 

 will recruit well in six weeks ; and 

 each will have this space of time to 

 recruit. But in the latter part of 

 October, the cattle may range 

 through all the lots, unless some 

 one may become too wet and soft. 

 In this case, it ought to be shut up, 

 and kept so till feeding time the 

 next year. 



But that farmers may not be 

 troubled with low miry pastures, 

 they should drain them, if it be 

 practicable, or can be done consist- 

 ently with their other business. If 

 they should producea smaller quan- 

 tity of grass afterwards, it will be 

 sweeter, and of more value. It is 

 well known, that cattle fatted in a 

 dry pasture,have better tasted flesh 

 than those which are fatted in a 

 wet one. In the old countries it 

 will fetch a higher price. This is 

 particularly the case as to mutton. 



Feeding pastures in rotation, is 

 of greater advantage than some are 

 apt to imagine. One acre, man- 

 aged according to the above direc- 

 tions, will turn to better account,as 

 some say who have practised it, 

 than three acres in the common 

 way. By the common way I would 

 be understood to mean, having 

 weak and tottering fences, that will 

 drop of themselves in a few months, 

 and never can resist the violence 

 of disorderly cattle ; suffering 

 weeds and bushes to overrun the 

 land ; keeping all the pasture land 

 in one enclosure ; turning in all 

 sorts of stock together ; suffering 

 the fence to drop down in autumn, 

 so as to lay the pasture common to 

 all the swine and cattle that please 

 to enter ; and not putting up the 



