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But, frequently, even this is omitted -, or, 

 if once done, is fo long neglected, that its 

 effea is loft. 



Befides this faint attempt at improving the 

 fubftratum, the rufhes and other tall weeds on 

 the furface are fometimes fwept down with the 

 iithe •, — and fometimes left to enjoy their natu- 

 ral right. — Thus much as to imp'ovements. 



With refpeft to thea/es to which thefe mo- 

 rafles are applied, they are principally confined 

 to that of keeping young cattle from ftarving : 

 cows are fometimes trufted in them ; but in 

 general their furfaces are too rotten, and their 

 herbage too rank, for this fpecics of flock : 

 and common prudence, refulting from dear- 

 bought experience, generally prevents the far- 

 mer from trufting either his Iheep or his hq^-fes 

 in his " meadows ;" — left the former ftiould be 

 fubjedted to the rot, an4 the latter be fmothered 

 in the peat-bogs. 



When the young cattle have picked out the 

 little grafs they can find, — the fedge and other 

 aquatic weeds of the bogs are fometimes mown, 

 and carried oft" by hand, for litter ; and fome- 

 times fuffered to die and rot on their native 

 bogs, whofe depth is thereby annually in- 



creafed. 



