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heat, and then cattle will not eat it. A certain de- 

 gree of care is necessary in every thing : and in no- 

 thing more than in feeding all sorts of cattle. As 

 to litter, it is an object of such importance, that 

 provision for the system should be gradually made 

 through the winter, if corn enough be not left for 

 summer-thrashing to supply the beasts. All wheat- 

 stubbles should be cut and stacked ; leaves, in wood- 

 land countries, should be collected ; fern procured 

 from commons and warrens, rushes and aquatic 

 weeds stored from fens, &c. ; and if nothing else 

 can be had, heaps of sand formed for this use ; for 

 which peat also is excellent. An enterprising, vi- 

 gilant fanner, when he lias such an object as this in 

 view, will exert every nerve to be prepared for a 

 system, the profit of which will depend so much on 

 the care previously taken to be well provided with 

 litter of some sort or other. 



The first crop that will be ready for soiling is 

 liicern ; which may be supposed to last all the 

 stock till the first sown winter tares are ready, 

 when the lucern left uncut should be mown for 

 hay. The second sown winter tares come next ; 

 then clover, to be succeeded by the third sowing of 

 tares, and by the second growth of lucern. After 

 this comes spring tare*, and the second growth of 

 clover: and the third cutting of lucern may follow. 

 If chicory be applied to this use, for which it is 

 well adapted, it will, on any good land, be mown 

 thrice, and on very good soils four times. Thus the 

 whole summer may be provided ibr, without hav- 



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