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food, whatever, than turncps and barlej'-flraw ; 

 excepting fuch as are finiflied with rye-grafs in 

 the fpring ; and excepting Ibme few fatted by 

 fuperior graziers, who make a point of giving 

 their bullocks at turncps a little hay, towards 

 fpring, when the turneps are going off, before 

 the rye-grafs lays be ready to receive them. 



An excellent prad:ice, this, which ought, if 

 poflible, to be univerfally copied : for without 

 this precaution, bullocks are liable to receive 

 a check between turncps and grafs. 



Thtficond method of fatting cattle with tur- 

 neps is, to keep them in a loofe ftraw-yard ; 

 giving them turneps in clofe bins; namely, a 

 kind of fmall cow-crib with boards, or bars 

 nearly clofe, at the bottom. 



Thefe bins are diftributed about the yard, 

 and the turneps ufually put into them whole % 

 but, in this cafe, they are always " tailed" — 

 that is, have their tap-root lopped off— in the 

 field J and, uniefs the tops be frefh and palatable, 

 they are ufually " topped-and-tailed," giving 

 to the fatting bullocks the bulb only ; the 

 tops, if eatable, being given to ftore-cattle. 



Bullocks in the yard have fometimes their 

 ftraw given them in cribs ; and fometimes have 



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