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moftly confumed on the premifes : chiefly 

 perhaps in the houfe, but partly in the 

 field ; a practice which has already been 

 lp o ken of. 



3. AFTERGRASS. In fome places cattle are 

 turned into meadows as ibon as the crop is 

 out of them. This is fouling the ground 

 without any advantage to the cattle, which 

 will not, cannot, eat the ftubble of mown 

 ground. 



In this country, the oppofite extreme of 

 management is too prevalent. AFTERGRASS 

 provincially, " fog" is fcarcely ever 

 1 oroken till after Michaelmas , is fometimes 

 hoarded up till near Martinmas before it be 

 turned into. In the latter cafe, half of it, 

 perhaps, is generally wailed. Whether the 

 weather prove wet or frofty, one of which 

 may reaforiably be expected at that time of 

 the year, cattle deftroy as much long over- 

 grown aftergrafs with their feet as with their 

 mouths. ' Wherever they tread in wet wea- 

 ther, the grafs is fouled ; wherever they ftep 

 when froft is on the ground, the grafs they 

 i vi.;>d on is entirely deft rayed. 



