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let the old farmer put four horfes upon an acre 

 of clover to departure it, and let him keep an 

 account of the number of days the piece keeps 

 the four horfes. Then let him keep the fame 

 number of horfes in the ftable, and feed them 

 with the clover mown from a field of the 

 fame extent. He will find the horfes which 

 have depaftured to have deftroyed three times 

 as much with their feet as with their mouths 

 — befides the lofs of that manure which they 

 would have made by being fed in the flail or 

 fold. 



We will now confider the objections com- 

 monly made againft ftall-feeding. The firft 

 will be, that clover is not fit to cut fo early 

 as it is to departure. The fecond objection is 

 the trouble of cutting and fetching it home. 

 The firft objection I allow — it is a real incon- 

 venience -, as the month's keeping in May is 

 of great value : but if we, the preceding year, 

 make into hay a proportion fufficient for that 

 month or until the clover gets ftrong enough 

 to mow, the difficulty is got over. 



To the fecond objection I fay, that the 

 trouble of fetching home the clover is little 

 more than that of driv ing the horfes to and from 



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