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more than I should be able to dispose of, I was not 

 anxious after another crop, being rather desirous of 

 seeing what it would perform as a pasture. Ac- 

 cordingly, in about 10 or 12 days after the field 

 was cleared, I turned seven cows, two calves, and 

 two horses into it ; they all throve very remarkably, 

 and the cows gave more, and we thought a richer 

 milk than in any other pasture : I really expected, 

 as burnet is so strong an aromatic, that the milk 

 would have had a particular taste, but far other- 

 wise, the milk, cream and butter were as fine, if 

 not finer tasted than any from the best meadows. 

 I am satisfied, that there is no better pasture for 

 cows, whether milched or barren, than burnet. 

 The weather was now extremely droughty, all our 

 pastures were burnt up, yet the burnet flourished 

 and grew away as if it had a shower every week. 

 My stock of cows, horses and calves, before men- 

 tioned, pastured in it almost continually till Mi- 

 chaelmas : by the middle of November it was grown 

 so considerably, that I have again turned in six 

 head of cattle ; and if the weather be not severe, 

 I am of opinion, it will maintain them till Christ- 

 mas. 



The burnet straw, or haulm, is, after the seed 

 is separated from it, a very useful fodder for horses, 

 cows, calves, and sheep : the chaff is of good value, 

 if mixed with any other, however ordinary, chaff. 

 I have fed all the above mentioned stock with it 

 promiscuously together in one field ; putting the 



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