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" time, and both oxen and horses, when not worked, 

 " will thrive on it : sheep, also, are very fond of 

 " browzing on the pods, and the caving is a very 

 " nutritious manger meat." Bannister. 



The importance of putting beans in early, and 

 reaping soon enough, will appear clearly, when I 

 observe that the straw, well harvested, is worth from 

 two to three pounds per acre. Mr. Arbuthnot's 

 teams, which were always hard worked, never had 

 a truss of hay while his bean-straw lasted. 

 CUT-CHAFF. 



The number of engines which have of late 

 years been invented for cutting hay and straw into 

 chaff (most of which execute their work sufficiently 

 well), leaves no farmer in the kingdom under the 

 necessity of using the common chaff-box, worked 

 by those only who have acquired the art of using it, 

 and who usually made much greater earnings than 

 the common pay per diem. Of these machines, 

 I believe Salmon's has the preference ; the price is 

 12l. 12s.; but a very good one is made at Thetford 

 for eight guineas. The practice of cutting both 

 hay and straw for all sorts of stock, is one that has 

 been found very important by many practical and 

 intelligent cultivators of great experience. General 

 observations are not so satisfactory as comparative 

 experience ; but there are not many persons who 

 have opportunity, time, and power, to compare the 

 food and labour of two different teams, the one 

 fed in the common way, with hay, and the other 

 with cut chaff, half or one-third straw. The opi- 

 nion 



