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 Folding fheep is fliamefully and fcanda- 

 loufly neglected throughout many counties. 

 .The very mention of fuch an omiihon is 

 fufHcient to difplay its barbarilm. 



The railing manure in farm-yards is at a 

 very low pitch throughout mofc parts of the 

 northern counties. This manure, with good 

 management, is the bed; and cheapeft a man 

 can ufe. Three circumftances occaiion this 

 defeit, fo very fatal to hufbandry : 



Firji. The want of well-inclofed farm- 

 yards, (called in th&Notthf old-yards .) 

 I faw fcarce any that deferved the 

 name. 

 Second. The feeding the hay about the 

 fields. This practice is productive 

 of nothing but mifchief. The 

 paftures are poached all winter j and 

 the dung ariiing from many herds of 

 cattle loll ; for a thin fcattering about 

 the fields is worthlefs. 

 'third. The not chopping their wheat 

 flubbles for littering their yards. 

 Left in the field it is quite ufelefs as 

 a manure, from want of quantity 

 and fermentation ; and it choaks the 

 plough in breaking up. But when 

 it is carried into the farm-yard, to 

 receive all the dung and urine of the 

 cattle that eat the draw and Hay ; 

 it is converted into vaft quantities of 

 rich manure. 



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