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the more northern parts of Scotland, giving them straw and tur- 

 nips throughout the winter. Some farmers feed for the butcher 

 all the cattle they winter, whilst others sell them to graziers in 

 the spring, at an advance of L. 2 or L. 3 per head. The Scotch 

 farmers find that their horses and cows can be fed with good 

 oat-straw in winter, without any material difference in their la- 

 bour, or milk, and certainly they may well suppose there will be 

 still less difference with lean cattle, who had perhaps never tasted 

 good straw, far less turnips, all their lives. They therefore re- 

 serve their hay till spring, and having thus less occasion for a 

 large quantity, than their southern neighbours, they have a great 

 part of their clover to spared/or soiling, (that most valuable prac- 

 tice), and pasture. At the same time, from the allowance of 

 turnips, there is reason to believe, that not a fourth part of the 

 straw is eaten, and of that probably nine-tenths return to the 

 dunghill. Were they then, upon Mr Young's and Mr Money 

 Hill's plan, to provide hay or oil-cake, they might be justly ac- 

 cused of deviating from the great principle which runs through 

 every part of Scotch farming economy ; to which the graziers* 

 prices, and the high rents of grass inclosures, would soon oblige 

 them to return. , 



No. II. 



SOME ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS REGARDING THRESHING- 



WILLS. 







HAVING already given a particular account of the nature and 

 advantages of separating grain from the straw, by means of 

 threshing-mills, it would have been unnecessary to have added 

 any thing concerning that process in this work, if an opportunity 

 had not occurred, since the 7th section of chapter 1, " On In- 

 struments of Husbandry," was sent to the press, of examining 



