:?94 FARM-VARD MANAGEMENT*. i^ 



-colder and befl of the ftnuv may be given to 

 fuch as require the befl keep. 



Sometimes the ftravv is given to the cattle in 

 " bins;" fometi;T.cs laid in heaps ; and frequent- 

 ly for bullocks at turnep, it is fcattered loofe 

 about the yard. 



Upon the whole, the Norfolk farmers may 

 be faid to be wafteful of flraw -, moire efpecj- 

 -ally at the beginning of the winter, when it is 

 frequently thrown into the- empty yard entirely 

 -wafte as to fodder : this, however, is not looked 

 upon in fo improvident a light in Norfolk as 

 in moil other places ; for here a notion of the 

 utility o-f having plenty of ftraw among dung 

 prevails fo flrongly, that the flraw which is eaten 

 by cattle is confidered by feme men, as being 

 in a manner wafled' as to manure. 



For fui^her obfervationsoivthis fubjeft, fee 

 vMiN. 73. 



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