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them in the stable on lucerne ; and, if he has not 

 lucerne, on tares or clover. This is one of the 

 most important articles in his business ; he should 

 therefore consider it .well, that he may adhere to 

 that practice which most reduces the expence of 

 keeping the team. 



Food given in the stable goes much further than 

 in the field, and also enables the farmer to raise large 

 quantities of dung throughout the summer. These 

 are both objects of great consequence ; and if he 

 appropriates a small field of lucerne, near the stable, 

 to this use, he will find it by far the cheapest way 

 of keeping his horses. An acre, perfectly well 

 managed on rich good land, and amply manured, 

 will maintain four or five horses, from May to Octo- 

 ber ; but, if a farmer would manage in the most 

 judicious manner, he should allot an acre to every 

 two or three horses ; by which means he will be 

 sure to have plenty to spare for any other use. 



This system of conducting the team cannot be 

 too strongly recommended : those farmers who 

 provide grass or clover to turn their horses into, 

 know well the great quantity of land that must be 

 assigned them, and the high cxpcnrrs in general 

 of keeping horses : they should determine' to em- 

 brace all methods of lowering such great exp- 

 and none offers more rloarly, and with a pvatcr 

 certainty, than the cultivation of lucerne for sum- 

 jner food. 



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Qx-teams arc maintained in winter at a much 



less 



