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to be flocked with flieep, cattle and horfes, fo 

 that the grafs may be eaten clean off-, for, un- 

 Icfs it is regularly depaftured, much damage 

 enfues. Each of the above three kinds of ani- 

 mals prefers, as moft palatable food, fome 

 grafles which the others rejed ; and none of 

 them will bite near their own dung, though they 

 may near that of others : and thus they con- 

 jointly contribute to keep the pafture level 

 without much expence. Paftures Ihould be kept 

 as level as a bowling-green, both for ornament 

 and ufe; for, by one part being left higher than 

 another, the long grafs keeps incrcafing in 

 patches; and land, where it grows, may be 

 confidered as taken away from the pafture, as 

 the cattle will almoft fooner ftarve than eat it. 

 By leaving the fort of graflfes the animals rcfufe 

 from year to year, the land increafes in ufclefs 

 plants, and diminilhes in ufeful ones; as the feed 

 of fuch plants continually drops, and the ufe- 

 fol ones ' are prevented feeding by the cattle 

 fating them. Now were fuch pafture mown in 

 diofc places, it would give the ufeful plants 

 room to grow. It is always faid, 111 weeds get 

 up quick. So they do: on the bcft part of a 



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