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properly fnpplied, will winnow the fame 

 quantity in half-a-day. The fan itfelf fup- 

 plies the place of the perfon who riddles ; 

 and all the labour which is neceffarily be- 

 flowed on the difficult work of fcparating 

 the one continuous heap into corn, chaff, 

 and colder, and running the intermingled 

 parts down again and again to reduce them 

 to one or other of thofe articles, is entirely 

 faved. 



II. Yard Management requires to be 

 fubdivided, in this cafe, into 



1. Expenditure of draw. 



2. Raifing yard-manure. 



1. Expenditure of Straw. In the Vale 

 and the Morelands cattle are almofl: univer- 

 fally kept tied up in houfes, or hovels, or 

 under fheds, which, if the afpedt be good 

 and the ends properly Iheltered, are pre- 

 ferable to clofe houfes. Warmth and dry- 

 nefs are no doubt of great advantage to cattle 

 in winter, efpecially to lean ftraw-£ed cattle, 

 which cannot bear the feverity of weather fo 

 well as cattle whofe keep is higher. But in 

 this, as in moil things, there is a medium to 

 beobfervcd. The hair of cattle kept in a 

 D d 2 clofe 



