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hay will be twenty-five fhillings, fuppofing it 

 fold : but if ufed on the farm in keeping a cow, 

 the expence on the fame quantity of hay will be 

 only half a crown per ton — fo that there is a 

 clear faving often (hillings per ton by eating 

 the hay at home. But fuch faving is fmall when 

 compared with the profit ariGng from the ma- 

 nure, by making it into a compofl: as before 

 direded. There is likewife the pig-manure to 

 be added, which may at the loweft eftimation 

 berated at five fhillings more in favor of con- 

 fuming the produce at home. The cow may go 

 fix weeks dry; but that lofs will be compenfa- 

 ted by the calf, and the allowance I have made 

 of three pounds of butter for five weeks in my 

 eftimiate. 



Fattening cattle will pay as well as any thing ; 

 although that bufinefs may be fubjed to great 

 variations in refpedl to profit. It is no uncom- 

 mon circumflance to buy in a beaft which 

 fhall pay eight pounds for the winter-feeding. 

 To thofe who have not tried this method, or 

 not been accuflomed to feed cattle on hay, this 

 perhaps may feem incredible. But on the farm 

 at Aby-Grange we had hay grew upon land 



that 



