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On Soiling Cattle : mixed cultivation of Corji and Pota- 

 toes. By John Lorain. 



Read July 10th, 1810. 



Tackoney, 2\st May 1810. 



Sir, 



I received yours of the 14th instant, and consider 

 myself highly honoured by your board, but am obliged 

 to decline an attendance on your meetings, as my family 

 who are very lonely situated, would not feel easy were I 

 absent at night. 



I regret exceedingly that my peculiar situation, pre- 

 vents an intercourse with gentlemen who have added 

 reading, reflection, and experiment to long practical in- 

 formation. Books and the practice of common farmers 

 have heretofore been my only resource, the latter are 

 too generally in hostility, with every thing that increases 

 labour or expence, and it is extremely difficult to glean 

 Vv^hat will best suit the soil and climate of my farm, from 

 the former. 



I shall go on to make the most attentive use of such 

 information as I can obtain, and should any thing wor- 

 thv of record occur in my practice, it shall be com- 

 municated to you. 



I am now trying to fat 27 young healthy steers, rising 

 up from about five to eight or nine hundred pounds, 

 also seven three year old runts and a cow, by soiling 

 them in yards where they have shelter from sun and rain, 

 and good spring water at will : fresh grass is also given 

 them twice a day under my own inspection. For two 



