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farmers keep them the whole winter upon it 

 without much corn, and the horfes are fat and 

 fine as hunters. Poft-horfes thrive well upon 

 it, and, next to corn, nothing will keep them 

 in fuch good heart. It is excellent for fheep, 

 but not proper for cows. If the crop has been 

 fuffered to remain until it was ripe,and the hay be 

 thrafried for feed, it is ftill fit for horfes, and may- 

 be cut into chaff, and will give as much nourifh- 

 mentas treble the quantity of chaff from flraw. 

 If the farmer has a redundancy of feeds after 

 thrafhing, they may with great advantage be 

 given to horfes in lieu of corn, in the propor- 

 tion of three to four. 



By mowing this grafs early in the fummer, 

 the eddifh, or after-grafs, will fpring imme- 

 diately, and be foon fit to be depaftured ; 

 and the flock may be taken out fooner in the 

 Autumn, It has been objected, that faintfoin 

 is a great impoverifher of land; but I requeft 

 thofe who have adopted fuch an opinion upon 

 truft, to keep a debtor and creditor account : 

 for I infift that no plant in ufe will improve 

 land fo quickly, with {o great a profit, at fuch 

 a fmall expence. If we confider, that two tons 

 of hay will make three loads of excellent ma- 

 nure; allowing one load of flraw to litter thtf 



horfes, 



