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MINUTES 



MAR. 



84. 



BULLOCKS 

 BREAKING 

 TURNEPS. 



ing ; their tongues being adapted to the pur- 

 pofe of gathering up their aliment, rather 

 than to that of aflifting them in chewing it. 



85- 



TIMBER. MARCH 3. In thinning timber-trees, whe- 



ther in hedges, or in open grounds, it is gene- 

 rally advifable, when two trees grow amicably 

 together, their branches intermixing, and their 

 tops of equal height, forming as it were one 

 top, to leave them both {landing : for, if one of 

 them be taken away, the beauty of the other is 

 fpoilt, and its atmofphere changed : the evil 

 effect of this treatment I have frequently ob- 

 ferved. 



But when one of them has got the fuperiori- 

 ty fo far as to overhang the other, it is general- 

 ly right to take the underling away, and there- 

 by add beauty and ftrengrh to the mafter-plant. 



Twin timbers, however, more particularly 

 double (terns growing from the fame flub, are 

 dangerous to horned cattle. I have lately 

 heard of more than one accident by trees grow- 

 ing fo near together that cattle could 'juft get 

 their horns through between them ; and having 

 got them there could not find the fame way to 



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