ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



tails of the application of the garden crops, as 

 well as of hay and corn, to the purpofe of 

 flock-feeding, was this the proper place to in- 

 troduce them ; not taken from the uncertain 

 reports of a bailiff, as is too often the cafe, but 

 from my own perfonal obfervation. 



Of potatoes and turnips as food for Horfes, 

 more particularly if they labour, I have no 

 other ideas than of their grofs impropriety ; 

 but I once turned a mare, lean and worked 

 down, into turnips, upon a rich fand in Effex, 

 with a lot of bullocks, and fhe came up nearly 

 as fat as the beafls. The jockies of Blunde- 

 ville's days, were accuflomed to fat their 

 horfes for fale upon fodden coleworts mingled 

 with bran, and a little feafoned with fait. 

 Almofl all thofe new experiments, as they arc 

 ftyled, in the diet of horfes and cattle, are to 

 be found in Blundeville and Markham, parti- 

 cularly in the laft page of the latter ; where we 

 find even the fir-tops lately recommended by 

 Mr. Lawfoh, which difcovery Markham fays, 

 he had of ' a great lord.' Nothing can better 

 charafterize the ufe of potatoes for horned 

 cattle, than the experiments of a gentleman at 

 Enfield, recorded in the Annals of Agriculture 

 thisfummer; even with good hay, they ren- 

 dered the milk of cows fo thin and poor, that 

 it was not good enough for fucklers ; now 

 good hay alone, will produce milk fufficiently 



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