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are generated. The winter's cold, with superfluous 

 moisture by rain or snow, has a contrary tendency; 

 the manure is, comparatively speaking, weak ancj 

 poor. 



When I view the common spectacle of a large yard 

 spread with a thin stratum of straw or stubble, and 

 a parcel of lean straw-fed cows wandering about 

 it, I think I see the most ingenious way of anni- 

 hilating litter, without making dung, that the wit 

 of man could have invented. Burning such straw 

 upon the land before sowing turnips, would be an 

 application far superior. 



Cows thus managed, are amongst the most un- 

 profitable stock that can be kept on a farm. With 

 the best food and management, their dung is infe- 

 rior, 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 thelitter 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 Jitter 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 not 

 in winter. 



If, on experience, it should be found by others as 

 it has often been by myself, that litter of all kinds is 

 Converted in summer to better dung than common 



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