MINUTES 



FEK. 



BREED OF 

 CATTLE. 



he were to be kept another year, would reach at 

 leaft feventy. 



But this peculiar quality of the Norfolk 

 flock does not depend on fize ; for Mr. B. fays, 

 that a three-year-old Scot (flill fmaller perhaps) 

 is as difficult to fat as a three-year-old marfh- 

 lander. He fays, it is bad management to 

 attempt it ; but keep them on until they be four 

 years old, and they will make famous " over- 

 year" bullocks : adding, that at that age they 

 will generally pay for keeping over-year. 



FARM-YARD 

 MANAGEM. 



73- 



FEBRUARY 10. It feems to be a received 

 idea among the Norfolk farmers, that the draw 

 which is eaten by cattle is in a manner wafted 

 as to manure. Mr. S. I remember, as an argu- 

 ment in favour of his plan of fatting pigs loofe 

 in the open yard, faid what a rare parcel of 

 muck they make, compared with what neat 

 beafls would have made from the fame ftraw. 

 " A parcel of lean hungry flock, fays he, come 

 " into a yard and eat up all the flraw : fee there 

 *' lies a bundle of draw as big as aman can carry." 



Mr. B. the other day, intimated the fame 

 idea : however, on putting the queflion, he ac- 

 knowledged 



