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cover, or let them be loose in a straw-yard, well lit- 

 tered in either case: and if the latter, they should 

 have open sheds to retire under at pleasure. 



This is also the month for purchasing beasts of 

 the smaller sort, for fatting on the same articles of 

 food, particularly turnips and cabbages* It is this 

 plan of appropriating the turnips and cabbages of a 

 farm to fatting beasts throughout the^.vinter, hi a 

 well littered farm-yard, that converts the straw, 

 fern, stubble, &c. into such quantities of dung as 

 improves the land more than any other method 

 whatever. 



The quantity of turnips and hay which stalled 

 f>xen eat, appears from experiment to be a ton of 

 turnips, besides chafF or hay, in a week, for an ox 

 of 75 stone (ulb.); r.1 cut. a week for a cow of 

 32 stone, with variations of course. 



HOGS. 



Now also put full-grown hogs to fatten : a busi- 

 ness profitable, particularly in respect to the im- 

 provement of a farm by dung. If he gets the market 

 price for his pease, barley, beans, buck -wheat, 

 &c. and saves carriage upon them, at the same 

 time getting a fair price for his swine, lean, he cer- 

 tainly makes a considerable profit upon the whole 

 transaction, though not an immediate one, as the 

 mere fattener of hogs; but what is of much greater 

 consequence, is the raising of rich and most valua- 

 ble manure. 



The mast profitable method of converting corn 



of 



