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this twice that number might be kept, and the 

 manure made in fummer with green food by 

 this method would be found to be much bet- 

 ter than the manure made in winter in the u- 

 fual way. Mixing ftraw intimately in fummer 

 with grafs, clover, or any other green food, as 

 before defcribed, will certainly be applying the 

 ftraw to a much more profitable purpofe than 

 the prefent method of ufmg it will admit of ; 

 and the cattle, inftead of being poor and pi- 

 ning, would be kept in a thriving ftate, and the 

 manure be bettter in quality in proportion to 

 their good condition. In winter an equal quan- 

 tity of nutritious food mould be mixed with 

 the ftraw, fuch as faintfoin or clover hay, po- 

 tatoes or cabbages, which will preferve the an- 

 imals in a healthy ftate, and caufe them to in- 

 creafe in bulk and value. 



It does not abfolutely follow that the farmer's 

 cattle muft be poor and pining, becaufe he has 

 not immediately on % his farm clover, tares, po- 

 tatoes or cabbages, carrots, &c. ; though alike 

 neceflary and pleafant, as well for his own ufe 

 as that of his cattle. If, at his firft entrance 

 on a farm* he mould find it deftitute of thefe 



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