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the quantity of ryc-grafs being fmall ; the 

 feedfman taking care to jftir them up, from 

 time to time, to prevent the fmalleft and 

 heavieft from fettling at the bottom of the bowl 

 or hopper. 



4. Quantity of seed. — This varies with 

 the quality of the feed, and the opinion of 

 the farmer : half a peck of rye-grafs ! and /<? 

 tBe dinount of twelve or fourteen pounds of 

 clover, an acre, may be taken as the medium 

 quantity : if two or three pounds of fuckling, 

 or three or four pounds of " hulled nonfuch,** 

 or a proportional quantity of " black non- 

 fuch," be fown, the quantity of red clover is 

 proportionably lefs. 



5. The feeds are generally covered with a 

 pair of fniall harrows, drauai backward, to 

 prevent the teeth from tearing up the clods, 

 difturbing the barley, or burying the grafs- 

 feeds too deep. 



V. Vegetating-process. The " young 

 feeds" are fludioufly kept (:a\\\ fheep the firfl 

 autumn and winter. They arc, however, eaten 

 freely with young ftock and other flore-cattle ; 

 and for conveniency huve fometim-es turneps 



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