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for fheep : Mod certainly none at prefent 

 known equals it in quantity; and the dura- 

 tion is undoubted. And the circumdance 

 of an acre keeping fifty fheep is one of the 

 mod: important articles of intelligence I any 

 where gained ; it is explicit and decifive : 

 By keeping is to be underdood the common 

 method of wintering ftock fheep, the breed 

 large and fine, but the crop mud be good ; 

 twenty acres for one thoufand fheep ! What 

 hufbandry can equal this ? 



Feeding Swine. 



Mr. Scroop's fwine feed very freely on 

 them, and are kept in very good 

 condition, without other food. 



Having thus examined the merit of this 

 vegetable in feeding and fattening cattle, I 

 fhall next infert the minutes concerning the 

 quantity eat : They are few, but are of great 

 ufe in calculations of the proportion between 

 cattle and food, whereby it is known what 

 quantity of cabbages mud be allotted to a 

 given weight of beef. 



Mr. Turner. An ox of eighty flone 

 (14/^.) eat 210 lb. in twenty-four 

 hours, befides 7 lb. of hay. 

 Mr. Scroop. An ox of an hundred done 

 in twenty-four hours eat 168 lb. and 

 7 lb. of hay. 

 Mr. Dodfwortb. An ox of fcventy-fiv* 

 Hone 224 lb. 



Suppofe 



