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rouens are supposed to have a disagreeable taste till 

 sweetened by the autumnal frosts, the better way is 

 to avoid stocking them till towards Michaelmas, 

 when these rouens will be found abundantly to in- 

 crease the milk in cows, and arc no less beneficial 

 for improving fatting beasts in fle>h ; and when 

 these are taken out, there will sliH remain good store 

 of sheep-feed. But in feeding sheep on sainfoin rou- 

 ens, one caution is proper to be attended to ; and 

 this is, not to lay them too thick on the pasture, or 

 to suffer them to remain in the field beyond a stated 

 period. In either case, they would do much in- 

 jury to the future crop, by kiuuving olr" the crown 

 of the plant. In my opinion, cattle of every kind 

 ought to be taken out of the sainfoin rouens by 

 Christmas; for as this tr /ms to shoot very 



early in the spring, the next \ ear's shoot would be 

 considerably retarded, by permitting the stock to 

 remain on the rouens long after the period above- 

 mentioned. Bannister. 



FERX. 



Cut fern, called in some places brakes and bra- 

 kens. This is most profitable work, and should 

 never be neglected. Carry it into the farm-yard, 

 and build large stacks of it for cutting down through 

 the winter, as fast as the cattle will tread it into 

 dung; also for littering the stables, ox-houses, 

 cow-houses, hog-sties, fatting-sheds, &c. By hav- 

 ing great plenty of it, you will be ublc to rai?c im- 

 mense quantities of dung, which is the foundation 



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