JULY, 425 



My stock of cows, horses, and calves, before men- 

 tioned, pastured in it almost continually till Mi- 

 chaelmas: by the middle of November it was grown 

 so considerably, that I have again turned in six head 

 of cattle; and if the weather be not severe, I am 

 of opinion it will maintain them till Christmas. 



The burnet straw, or haulm, is, after the seed 

 is separated from it, a useful fodder : the chaff 

 is of value, if mixed with any other. I have fed 

 all the above-mentioned stock with it promiscu- 

 ously together in one field ; putting the haulm 

 into racks and the chaff into troughs, and if the 

 haulm was chopped with an engine, it would be of 

 still more value. 



Burnet, I am fully persuaded, will prove a 

 very great acquisition to husbandry on many ac- 

 counts, but more particularly for the following 

 reasons. 



Burnet is a good winter pasture, consequently 

 it will be of great service to the farmer, as a con- 

 stant crop he may depend upon, and that without 

 any expence of seed or tillage, after the first sow- 

 ing ; whereas turnips are precarious and expensive, 

 and when they fail, as particularly this year, the 

 .farmer is very often put to great inconveniences to 

 keep his stock. 



It affords both corn and hay. Burnet seed is 

 said to be as good as oats for horses. I know they 

 will eat it very well ; judge then the value of an 

 acre of land which gives you at two mowings ten 

 quarters of corn and three loads of hay. 



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