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In the firfl place they avail tliemfelves of 

 every turnip, and the cattle have the 

 comfort to eat them off a dry place, 

 where they go twice as far, and do them 

 more fervice than they would trodden 

 into, and picked out of the dirt where 

 they grew. Even upon light land they 

 draw half the crop, that is, every other 

 ridge, or every other half-ridge, accor- 

 ding to the fize of it, and hurdle off the 

 other half, to be confumed by bullocks 

 and fheep in frefh portions, as they re- 

 quire them ; letting the fatting flock in 

 firfl, and the flore-cattle afterwards to 

 eat up the offal parts. If the latter are 

 neat cattle, another great advantage is 

 derived by putting them into the flraw- 

 yards at night, where the extra quantity 

 of urine, occafioned by feeding on the 

 turnips in the day-time, contributes to- 

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