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licc is not uncommon ; 2nd much depending on 

 care and management in this bufincfs, they 

 may, probably, find their account in it. Un- 

 der this trcatmenr, tlie cattle have a little 

 barley-draw given them, from time to time, 

 to clean their mouths, and dry up the fuper- 

 fluous juices of the turncp^ 



Sometimes {hed-bullocks are '' blown up" 

 with pollard and barley-meal ; but this is con- 

 fidered as an unfair practice by the butchers 

 m Smithfield, who prefer turneps and hay in 

 winter, and rye-grafs in the fpring, to every 

 ether kind of fatting. 



In the fouthern Hundreds of thas Diflrid:, 

 the foils of which are, in general, too tender 

 to bear cattle with propriety in a wet feaibn, 

 the yard and the flied are more common re- 

 ceptacles of bullocks than ihey are in i^ij 

 neighbourhood. 



In Blowfield Hundred, a commodious bi^^t 

 expenfive (lied prevails : it has one main ad- 

 vantage over the little hovels in which bul- 

 locks are fometimes cooped up : the lofty, 

 fpacious area in which the bullocks breathe, 

 ^ilbrds them a plentiful lupply of frelh air, 

 U 4 and 



