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 corn, 8zc. &c. or fuch of them as a man 

 chufes to ufe. 



This management enables the cukivator 

 to have always plenty of food beforehand, 

 which, with fome forts, is a point of 

 importance ; carrots with a froft are abfo- 

 liitely fixed beyond the power of moving ; 

 and turnips are very difficult to get at. 

 The other kinds of food are fometimes 

 half loft and fpoiled for want of proper 

 places to difpofe them in. 



But one circumftance in the building the 

 houfe is of very great importance ; fuch a 

 general receptacle of food as I have defcrib- 

 ed, would be no of great ufe if it w^as not 

 fo contrived, as none fhould want carrying 

 round to be thrown in the common way 

 into the maanger. Inftead of this, I fup- 

 pofe a fm.all Hiding door in the boarded 

 partition of the houfe, oppofite the head 

 of each ox, and juft over the manger, for 

 the people in the foodhoufe to throw it 

 diredly in, without trouble or difficulty. 



I likewife fuppofe the rack for hay to be 

 fo contrived in the partition of thefe houfes, 

 that hay may be thrown into it either from 



the 



