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long line, with a similar number ranged at their 

 back, with their heads in an opposite direction. 

 These cattle are stall fed with grass and poonac 

 and are bedded down with a coarse kind of 

 grass almost like straw. When fresh bedding 

 is required, the old is thrown into the next 

 terrace, which is occupied by a number of pigs ; 

 these have layers and layers of bedding thrown 

 down for their use, till the surface becomes so 

 much raised, and forms such a rich manure that 

 it is thought time to remove it, and to place it 

 in a stack outside the shed ready for use when 

 required. Then da capo. The third terrace 

 is used as a cart shed, though a small portion at 

 one end is enclosed with a bamboo stockade, 

 and divided off into pig styes where the young 

 litters of pigs are reared before they are old 

 enough to be turned loose with the others. 

 Nine coolies under a Kangany are told off to 

 attend to the two cattle sheds, and to cut grass 

 for their inmates ; and each grass cutter is 

 obliged to cut eighty bundles a day measuring 

 two and a half feet each way. 



Besides these stall fed cattle, there is quite a 

 herd of young stock and animals which belong 

 to outsiders who pay so much a month for 

 agistment. These graze on the grass fields 

 and are herded to prevent straying. It is a 

 very pretty sight in the early morning to see 

 them grazing on the hill side, and reminds 



