6\0 DECEMBER* 



after a dry summer, when straw is scarce, and the 

 cattle have it dealt out to them regularly, they do 

 better than when, nfter a plentiful year, it is thrown 

 before them in profusion from the thrashing-floor; 

 not through the superior quality of the straw in a 

 scarce year, as these effects have been observed to 

 be produced from the same straw. This subject i& 

 by no means uninteresting to those who winter large 

 quantities of cattle: I have observed in Yorkshire, 

 where cattle are kept tied up, and of course are re- 

 gularly fed, that they in general do better at straw, 

 than cattle in the south of England, where they 

 go loose among a much greater plenty; but whether 

 it proceed from the warmth, from their resting 

 better, from the breed of cattle, or from their 

 being regularly fed, and eating with an appetite^ 

 I will not pretend to decide." Marshall. 



LITTER" FARM-YARD, &c. 



Littering all sorts of cattle, &c. is never to be 

 omitted at this season. The quantity of manure 

 made is an essential object: the following notes will 

 shew certain proportions of dung to stravr. 



Mr. Moody. Forty-five fat oxen, in fatting, lit- 

 tered with 20 waggon-loads of stubble, raised 20Q 

 loads, eac\h three tons, of rotten dung, worth 7s. 6d. 

 a load. 



Every load of hay and litter given to beasts fatting 

 on oil-cake, yield seven loads of dung, each one ton 

 and a half, exclusive of the weight of the cake. 



On a comparison between t|?<i oil -cake dung and 



GO rn mon 



