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 to inclofe a proper yard for winter keeping 

 the cattle, is abfolutely neceffary to all who 

 would work fuch improvements as thofe I 

 am at prefent recommending. I will ven- 

 ture to aflert, that it is impoffible (unlefs 

 in very peculiar fituations) to farm well 

 without a good farm-yard, and proper 

 buildings : in farms where fuch are not to 

 be found, the grafs fields are poached all 

 winter long, and the quantity of manure 

 raifed trifling ; manure is the foul of good 

 hufbandry, and that cannot be made in 

 great quantities without a proper inclofure 

 to feed the hay, ftrav^', turnips j and to 

 litter the flubble ; nor can a farmer make 

 the very defirable ufe of an opportunity to 

 gain, or purchafe fern, refufe ftraw, Q^c. 

 in order to convert into manure, iinhfs he 

 has fuch a farm-yard to litter with them. 

 But without fuppofing fo good a fyftem of 

 management, ftill the fai mer will not be 

 able to raife any dung from his own flraw, 

 hay, ftubble, turnips, &c. without the pro- 

 per conveniencies. View the management 

 of two farmers, one good and the other 

 bad in this refpecl: the firfl procures by 

 every means plenty of litter for his ftalls 

 of all forts, and his yard for loofe cattle ; 



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