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pose. And at no season of the year should cattle 

 be kept for any long time, without salt. They are 

 greedy after, and it conduces to keep them in 

 health. 



As- to summer feeding, it is not fit that a whole 

 stock go promiscuously in the same pasture. Some 

 would be overmuch fed, and some not enough. A 

 farmer's pasture grounds should be made into a 

 number of separate enclosures; the greater num- 

 ber the better. Milch kine and cattle fattening for 

 slaughter should have the first of the feed in each 

 inclosure; then working oxen; afterwards young 

 stock, horses and sheep. When each kind have 

 had their turn, for two or three days or perhaps a 

 week, the apartment maybe shut up, till it be suf- 

 ficiently grown for the milch cow&!. By such a ro- 

 tation much may be saved; but little of the grass 

 will be wasted by trampling; and what one sort 

 leaves another will eat; so that none of the grass 

 will be lost. 



Oxen should not live to be more than eight years 

 old, nor cows more than ten or eleven. When 

 they are kept longer, they do not fatten so easily; 

 and the beef is not so good. Cattle to be fattened 

 should have the best of pasture during the whole 

 grass season, or they will not be fat so early as 

 December; and they should lose a little blood, 

 when they are first turned to grass. In autumn, 

 when grass grows short, or is corrupted by frosts, 

 their fattening should be promoted by feeding them 

 morning and evening with the stalks of Indian corn, 

 pumpions, potatoes, or carrots; and especially with 

 ears of corn, if the owner can aflfbrd it. Indian 

 meal is supposed to be still better to complete their 

 fattening. Oil cakes from linseed mills are much 



