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hree-fourths of a stone of hay with the former allowance ; and 

 suppose the straw-yard cattle now increased to 50, owing to the 

 greater quantity of straw, have only one-third of a stone, the 

 whole quantity of hay for 20 weeks will be 5700 Scotch stones, 

 which, at 1 s. amounts to L. 285, and is the produce of 38 acres. 

 The additional turnips for ten more beasts, required by the in- 

 creased quantity of straw, to be made into dung, at L. '2, 10s. as 

 before, or L. 25, will advance this to L. 310- This, or something 

 near it, is the increased expence of converting 150 acres of' straw 

 into dung, by giving hay as fodder instead of straw, and must be 

 paid, 1. By the superior value of the 50 straw-yard cattle; 2. By 

 more labour from the horses, or a saving of corn ; 3- by the 

 greater produce of the cows ; and, 4. By a greater quantity of 

 dung. All which items would not balance one-third of it. Be- 

 sides, if 38 acres of hay are used in this way by the middle of 

 March, even though the cattle should be sold soon after, about 

 half as much more would be required before grass, for them and 

 the house stock, or, altogether, 57 acres ; and if the remainder, 

 43, were equally divided between grass cut for soiling, and pas- 

 ture, the latter of which, to a certain extent, is always indispensa- 

 ble, there would be only c l\\ acres for each, one of which moieties 

 it would be found advisable to retain, for an addition to the stock 

 of hay, in case of a failure of the crop. It is needless to add, 

 that if the expence of converting straw into dung by the use of. 

 hay would not be repaid, oil-cake would be a still more losing 

 concern, as it is found in Norfolk. 



On the whole, it must always be remembered, that the ques- 

 tion is not about fattening cattle, but the best mode of convert- 

 ing straw into dung, and whether cattle eating a small part of 

 the straw, instead of hay, having a liberal allowance of turnips at 

 the same time, is not the best, or at least the most economical 

 system for that purpose, more especially as it enables a farmer to 

 carry on that excellent practice of soiling to a greater extent. 

 The greater number of the farmers in the Lothians, Roxburgh, 

 and Berwick shires, do not breed attle, but purchase th(*n an- 

 nually for wintering in the straw-yards ; and in this way their 

 *travv is made into manure. They purchase cattle, chiefly from 



