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that in thefc times is not worth more than from 

 fix to ten fhillings per acre, and that hay would 

 feed bullocks from eighty to a hundred ftone 

 weight. We fold them at from i8/. to loL 

 each, when beef was at 4^. 6d. per ftone. Thefe 

 bullocks would have from ten to eighteen ftone 

 of fat, reckoning fourteen pounds to the ftone: 

 and I never knew any of them eat other food 

 than hay which grew upon the poor land be- 

 fore mentioned, and which land never had any 

 manure but what the cattle, horfes, &c. depo- 

 fited when eating off the eddifti, and the great- 

 eft part of that was carried away for the ufe of 

 other land. 



I hope I have been able to convince the farm- 

 er, that, by managing his meadow land in the 

 manner recommended, and confumingthe pro- 

 duce at home inftead of felling it and impover- 

 ifliing the land, or being under the neceffity of 

 purchafing manure, he will be a very confider- 

 able gainer. His bufinefs will be more com- 

 pact, and confequcntly done with more eafe ; 

 and he will have fewer horfes to keep. 



As to harvefting hay, I muft obferve, that 

 much of our fuccefs in feeding cattle at Aby- 



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