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fhorn— By the latter pradlce a great deal of the prime 

 wheat is ihelled out in harvefling, and the fample is un- 

 queftionably left of a very inferior quality. 



19. To avoid threfhing wheat upon a clay or brick 

 floor, not only from their want of elafticity, but from an in- 

 jurious damp, that will be contra6led, by the grain redu- 

 cino- its weight and eflential value, from two and an half 

 to five per cent. 



20. To fubje(3:cows to occafional bleedings upon change - 

 of food, or when about one-third gone with calf; and 

 among the fuckling herds, when the milk gets fo rich as to 

 produce fymptoms of fcovvering, or of furfeit in the calf; 

 to thin it by feeding the cow with grains; and vice verfa to 

 thicken and enrich the milk by giving the cow a propor- 

 tionable quantity of malt coombs. 



21. To weigh with equal candour and judgment, the 

 proven excellencies in the feveral breeds of hogs, flieep, 

 cows, and horfes, and then to flock with fuch a choice as 

 on due confideration appears beft adapted to the foil, the 

 herbage, and the appropriation of the land. 



22. To relieve the wet heavy woodlands of their furplus ' 

 water, in the mode pra£lifed at Finchingfield ; inducing 

 thereby a more healthy timber ; and a more valuable under- 

 growth. 



23. T6 level the ants hills in the frefli marfhes, and to 

 cleanfe out and deepen the partition drains, fo that without 

 injury to the fences, the water maybe run down to a lower 

 level. 



24. To form tanks or refervoirs of rain water for fup- 

 plying the inhabitants of the iflands, embanked marfhes, and 

 tliofe parts of the county which in dry feafons, labour 



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