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55O LITTERING FARM-YARD. [DEC. 



county is deemed a profitable mode; those of 2O 

 years are regularly stored, and the poles converted 

 into hoops, spokes, lath, hurdles, cord, wood for char- 

 coal, and various other purposes. 



Twining. Wm. Pkelps."' 



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STRAW-FED CATTLE. 

 " 1 met with an idea that cattle may be satiated with 

 straw ; or, in other words, may be served with it in 

 too great plenty. It has been observed, that after a 

 dry summer, when straw is scarce, and the cattle have 

 it dealt out to them regularly, they do better than 

 when, after a plentiful year, it is thrown before them 

 in profusion from the threshing floor ; not through 

 the superior quality of the straw in a scarce year, as 

 these effects have been observed to be produced from 

 the same straw. This subject is by no means uninte- 

 resting to those who winter large quantities of cattle ; 

 I have observed in Yorkshire, where cattle are kept tied 

 up, and of course are regularly fed, that they in general 

 do better at straw, than cattle in the south of England, 

 where they go loose among a much greater plenty ; 

 but whether it proceed from the warmth, from their 

 resting better, from the breed of cattle, or from their 

 being regularly fed and ealing tuilh an appetite, I will 

 not pretend to decide." Marshall. 



LITTER FARM-YARD, &c. 



Littering all sorts of cattle, &c. is never to be 

 omitted at this season. The quantity of manure 

 made is an essential object : the following notes will 

 shew certain proportions of du; Taw. 



Mr. Moody. Forty-five (Vi oxen, in fatting, littered 



with 



