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cattle of all kinds eating green fodder in folds, 

 6r flails: and I am firmly of opinion that 

 beads intended for the flaaughter-houfe will 

 fatten much quicker by flail-feeding ; as, in 

 the heat of fummer, the flies difturb their reft, 

 make them uneafy, and occafion them to run 

 about continually -> which muft prevent their 

 becoming fat* 



Hunters and race-horfes would, from the 

 quantity of meat they eat, be as fat as pigs, if 

 exercife did nor keep them down. It would 

 be Angular to fee an Irifh labourer, accuflomed 

 daily to run up and down a ladder four flories. 

 high, over-loaded with flefh : a fat alderman 

 is not a very great curiofity. Therefore, were 

 cattle tied up, and fuffered to enjoy reft, by 

 eating their food in peace, they would feed 

 more heartily, and the mown food would not 

 be liable to be fpoiled by dunging or flailing 

 upon it ; which muft happen to a confiderable 

 part when cattle feed in the field. 



Red-clover, if intended for horfes to feed 

 upon, fhould be brought into the fold-yard or 

 flable; as animals of weight by treading upon 

 a plant of fuch a pulpy nature will fpoil much 

 more than they eat. To be convinced of this, 



let 



