MINUTES 



Nov. 



YAIRSTEAD. 

 TAIIi. 



MANURE. 



That the teathe of lean flock, and more par- 

 ticularly of cows, is much inferior to that of 

 fatting bullocks, is a fal univerfally acknow- 

 ledged throughout this county; and this may 

 in fome meafure be accounted for from the 

 oleaginous matter carried off by the milk of cows, 

 and imbibed by the vafcular carcafes of lean 

 {lock in general. On the fame principle, if flock 

 be hard driven, and much exhaufted by perfpi- 

 ration, and want of regular nourifhmcnt, their 

 teathe may become infipid and of little ufe to 

 land ; confequently this reafoning may in part 

 be applicable to the Bullock Hill at St. Faith's : 

 but, as before has been obferved, there are 

 numbers that come in good condition, and 

 from good paflures, at a very fmall diftance 

 from the Fair-hill, and there is no obvious rea- 

 fon why the teathe of thofe fhould not be nearly 

 equal to that of other fatting cattle : therefore, 

 upon the whole, it feems probable that driving 

 alone docs not produce this interelling fact. 



May we not venture to think it poffible that 

 land may be fatiated, or tired, even of the dung 

 of cattle ? The Hill in queflion has been the 

 lite of a large fair for cattle during time irru 

 memorial : perhaps, were the fair removed and 

 the foil manured with lime, marl, or fuch 



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