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dity by horfes, oxen, cows, and flieep. They 

 prefer it even to the beft hay, and it is ex- 

 tremely nourifhing. All poultry, and efpe- 

 cially pigeons, will eat this kind of feed, in 

 preference to any other. 



§ XXVII. 



A Method of procuring a Supply, in cafe of a 

 Scarcity of Hay. 



It appears from experience, that when the 

 months of April or May are dry, and there 

 is much violent wind, the harveft of hay is 

 far from being abundant. In order to pro- 

 cure, at fuch times, a fupply of fodder, it is 

 requifite that prudent and vigilant farmers 

 fhould then cultivate a part of their fallow 

 lands \ and they fhould fow rice, barley, and 

 oats, mixed with vetches and lentiles. At 

 the beginning of Auguft, when the rice be- 

 gins to grow to an ear, they mow and make 

 hay of the ftalks of thefe plants, and thereby 

 fupply the deficiency of hay from the mea- 

 dows; and the fields which have produced 

 this hay will again furnifli the fame kind of 

 pafture. This feed-time may be the better 



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