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straw upon the land before sowing turnips, would 

 be an application far superior. 



Cows thus managed, are amongst the most 

 unprofitable stock that can be kept on a farm. 

 With the best food and management, their dung is 

 inferior ; but thus kept on a' wide expanse of thin 

 litter, well drenched in rain and snow, running to 

 ponds and ditches, they destroy much, but give 

 little. 



When a farm is rich enough to summer-graze 

 oxen, large or small, oil -cake feeding to finish, or 

 wait for markets, is often profitable, and the litter 

 sure to be converted into excellent manure ; but 

 when the grass-lands will not permit this system, a 

 farmer cannot possibly be too sparing of litter in 

 winter. Hogs form an exception, but I know 

 not another. 



It is a facl, that stock, not in fattening condi- 

 tion, make good dung in summer, but they do it 

 not in winter. 



But there is another equal to this important 



one ; and that is, the food thus given going so 



much farther than it will do when grazed where it 



grows. This Mu.vriority has in certain experiments 



i marked as amounting to double, thrice, four 



s, and even live tin :r as when eaten in 



the field ; and when we recollect the old remark, 



,!jies) with five mouths, 



and it might be said to be with seven, we shall 

 not be surprized at I marks. However, that 



food thus given, goes much farther, cannot be 



doubted : 



