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bing their hides, in which they take particular 

 delight; they feel uncomfortable and cannot 

 fjeep eafy, and this will prevent their feeding 

 freely. Conftantly breathing in the fame crib 

 or trough makes the place unpleafant to the 

 beafts: a free uncontaminated air is as necef- 

 fary to them as to men. 



Mod of us know what effect foul air has 

 upon the human frame, and but few are igno- 

 rant of the bad and often fatal confequences of 

 it to cattle: their breath, however naturally 

 fweet, may become very ftrong from the na- 

 ture of the food they take, fuch as turnips, 

 cabbages, linfeed-cakes, &c. which, without 

 a fufficient circulation of air, will fill the whole 

 place with a putrid fleam highly noxious to 

 beads and man. 



I obferved the cow-keepers in the vicinity 

 of London, who in general keep a very great 

 number, make it a conftant practice to turn 

 their cows after milking into a cold and dirty 

 layer, or fold as we call it. Being a brewer, 

 and keeping cows myfelf, which were fed near- 

 ly as thofe in the neighbourhood of London 

 are, I tried the method, and was foon convinced 

 of the utility of it. For, having made partic- 

 ular 



