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 But it fhould be here remarked In general, 

 that fcarce any part of this fyftcm can be 

 carried into pradlice, when the hay, accord- 

 ing to the execrable management of many 

 parts of E?2gla}id^ particularly the north, is 

 Hacked about the farm, where it grew ; for 

 fo large a flock of cattle cannot be kept 

 together all winter without plenty of hay on 

 the fpot. His Lordihip Hacks none in the 

 fields, but all in yards adjoining the build- 

 ings, where it is eat. The benefit which 

 would refult from this pradliice becoming 

 general is great, for if the feeding cattle 

 with hay in the fields is attentively obferved, 

 it will always be found that they deftroy 

 near as much as they eat — that the land is 



poached and damaged that the hay fo 



deflroyed turns not to any manure, being 

 in no fiate of putrefadion for dunging grais 



land- and as to the dung of the cattle it 



is of trifling confequence, if of any ; for 

 that manure which is laid on fo thin as 

 not to caufe a fermentation, is nearly ufelefs. 

 Keep 2 GOO fiieep upon 2000 acres of land, 

 and take notice -of the trifling ufe they are 

 pf in manuring it : I much quelHon whether 

 it will ever be perceptible ; but fold them 

 pu a part at a time, and the vaft benefit 

 will be at once apparent. So it is with 

 feeding cattle upon hay in the field ; the 

 good is a trifle, but the benefit of giving 

 z them 



