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folutely neceffary to eat up the weeds. If any 

 part of the pafture be getting into bents, or 

 higher grafs than it ought to be, and the ani- 

 mals begin to negled it, you nauft mow it im- 

 mediately, and as near the ground as poflible; 

 for the clofer you cut down fuch coarfe parts, 

 the fweeter and the quicker will the grafs 

 fpring up in the place. Could animals by 

 hunger be driven to eat the long grafs, they 

 would not fatten upon it; for, as the nearer 

 the bone the fweeter the flefh, fo the nearer the 

 ground the fweeter the grafs : it is not fo much 

 the quantity as the quality of the food that mull 

 be attended to. 



It is a common complaint, that their land is 

 good in fpring, but it goes off. Is this to be 

 wondered at, when one third, or perhaps one 

 half of the field is become fo rank that not one 

 animal in the pafture will bite a mouthful of it ? 

 Suffer the very beft piece of grafs land, entirely 

 free from weeds, to lie without either eating off 

 the grafs, or mowing itj and in a few years it 

 will be over-run with weeds, have very little 

 ufeful grafs in it, and in faft be little better 

 ihan rubbifh. 



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