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difh, &c. By ftall-feeding the greateft part of 

 horfes will be kept up; for nothing is fo hurt- 

 ful in rotting of fheep on land3 as horfes going 

 upon it, or in fad any other land, except per- 

 haps when you turn a fmall number of them 

 into a clofe; as horfes will eat fome kinds of 

 grafs which no other animals will touch : fuch, 

 for example, as grows againft fencer, and by 

 the fides of footpaths. It will neverthelefs be 

 found a much better and cheaper method to 

 keep them in folds, as before directed, than in 

 pafiures, where they do more harm with their 

 feet than with their mouths. 



The number of fheep will be increafed fe- 

 venty. Therefore, if my calculation is right, 

 inftead of felling the hogs, they may be kept 

 for wethers. Should any danger be appre- 

 hended of the rot, add to the number of beafts 

 (which perhaps may turn out as profitable by 

 having a greater quantity in the fold), and 

 keep only the old number of fneep, viz. two 

 hundred to clip : and the feeds in the fpring 

 fhould be eaten up by four fheep to an acre. 

 I mean thofe twenty-four acres, part of the 

 ninety-fix in the foregoing eftimate, and which 



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