JANUARY. Q 



farms, where the grand support is the turnip crop. 

 On such, the rouen should be preserved till the 

 period of distress arrives, when turnips are done, 

 and forward grasses not ready. 



FARM-YARD. 



In this month a strict attention should be given 

 to the cattle in the yard or yards ; those I mean 

 which run loose there. Care should be taken to 

 have them regularly supplied with straw, if that be 

 the food, and that they have always water at com- 

 mand. The thrashers should be so proportioned to 

 the stock of lean cattle, as to make the straw last 

 just through the winter. Take good care also to 

 keep the yard well littered from the stacks of straw, 

 stubble, fern, &c. raised in autumn, so that the 

 cattle may always lie perfectly dry and clean. Their 

 health requires this attention; which should, at 

 any rate, be given, were it merely for raising large 

 quantities of manure. 



STRAW. 



While it is noted, that if the cattle are fed with 

 straw, it should be done with certain necessary 

 attentions, it would be an omission not to remark, 

 that the best farmers in Norfolk are generally 

 agreed that cattle should eat no straw, unless it be 



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cut into chaff mixed with hay ; but, on the con- 

 trary, that they should be fed with something bet- 

 ter, and have the straw thrown under them, to be 

 trodden into dung; and I am much inclined to be- 

 lieve, 



