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experiment was tried by racking them fome- 

 times with one fort, and fometimes with 

 the other : The nights they were racked 

 with the beft hay they did not eat all that 

 was given, but the nights in which they 

 had the falted damaged hay, although a 

 a larger quantity was given, yet in the 

 mornings their racks were found empty" 4 ." 



Mr. Searancke fold the feed at one ihilling 

 per pound . except fome he kept for his own 

 ufe) ; and the eighty-four bufhels weighing 

 21841b. came at that price to 109/. 4.S. od. 

 or 27 /. 6 s. o d. per acre ; a product that 

 will not often be exceeded. The price 

 of burnet is now three-pence per pound, 

 but fuppofe it two-pence in quantities, fuch 

 a crop would produce per acre 4/. 16 s. 6d. 

 befides the hay and after feed : This cal- 

 culation fhews that burnet-feed is yet an 

 object of importance in hufbandry, 



After this crop of feed the land was fed 

 by cows until Oflober. 



* This proof of the efficacy of fait in recovering 

 damaged hay convinced Mr. Searancke fo much, that 

 he pradiled it on other occafions. In finifhing a (rack 

 of common hay the top was making up with iome that 

 was almoft fpoiled by rain ; he ordered it to be thrown 

 off, fpread on the. ground and made again, and then in 

 ftacking it ftrewed it with a good deal of fait; in the- 

 winter it was eaten by cows, very freely. 



The common quantity is a peck of fait to a load of 

 hay. 



B % 1766. 



