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acres for hay ; as much or more, according to his quantity of sum- 

 mer-straw for soiling ; and pasture the remainder with his own and 

 servants' cows, young cattle, and a few ewes and lambs. As to 

 turnips, it would be out of all reason to carry home to his straw- 

 yard any thing like 100 acres, and besides, it would require so 

 many cattle ;to consume them, that a fourth part of their urine 

 could not be absorbed by all the straw on the farm. Probably he 

 carries to the straw-yard 20 or SO acres only, as in the case of 

 soiling, and goes to market for a lot of wethers to eat the remainder 

 on the ground, to be sold fat in the spring. If he were to soil with 

 all his clovers, besides that he would have no hay at all, he could 

 not have straw sufficient, if any part were used in winter ; and if 

 the whole, or nearly the whole turnips, were eaten in the straw- 

 yards, he could have no straw for summer-soiling. But he threshes 

 his crop regularly throughout the year, and reduces the straw to 

 manure, by turnips in the winter months, and by soiling in sum- 

 mer, as he threshes. Again, if he were to cut the whole of his 

 clover for hay, there could be no summer-soiling, and all his hay 

 of 100 acres would do little more than feed the cattle kept with 

 turnips, in such numbers, as would be required for converting all 

 the straw into dung. He would be sometimes even under the ne- 

 cessity of going to market for more hay, for his horses, cows, 

 and other house-stock, as well as to pasture his horses and cattle 

 in summer, upon some old grass, or rented grass-parks, instead of 

 soiling. He would therefore soon find, as in Norfolk, that straw- 

 yard cattle would not pay for this hay, and far less for oil-cake, 

 as has been well observed by Mr Bailey ; for in five months each 

 beast would eat a ton of hay, though only allowed I6lb. a-day, 

 and he would eat this, and more, with a straw-yard allowance of 

 turnips, and a little of the straw within his reach besides. This 

 would add L. 5 to his cost, and if L. '2, 10 s. is allowed for a quar- 

 ter of an acre of turnip, there is L. 7, 10s. besides straw for win- 

 tering, risk, and interest of money. No straw-yard cattle ever 

 pay nearly so much. 



These observations relate to the. usual practice, where a few 

 cattle only, or sometimes none at all, are fattened. Feeding for 

 *he butcher can only be carried on with advantage to a very li- 



