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part in the pods green, which may fetch 

 twenty guineas per acre at the lead, and you 

 may have a crop of turnips after with eafe : 

 but this crop of turnips has not been taken 

 into the account. It may be faid the profit 

 on the beads is laid too high ; but I deny 

 that to be the cafe, for the following reafons. 

 When you feed cattle on grafs, it is pofTible 

 that the feafons may vary fo much that the 

 lame pafture might keep double the number 

 of cattle at one time to what it may be capa- 

 ble of at another. Therefore as it is ufual to 

 put in the fame number every year, mould 

 the feafon prove dry, yen probably will be 

 overloaded with flock : if, on the contrary, it 

 mould prove wet, you will be deficient in 

 flock; and in either of thefe cafes you will be 

 difappointed. But with food provided in the 

 manner defbrlbed above, your green crops get 

 fo forward before the dry feafon probably ar- 

 rives, that they receive no injury; and by 

 fold or fiable-feeding the animal, if chofen of 

 the right fort, to a certainty iV-eedily becomes 

 fat. His food, his work, his reft is regular, 

 e.vcry day is the fame ; and every day will he 



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