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meals a day, each confiding of fixteen or 

 eighteen pounds of roots, mixed with four 

 pounds of chopt draw or hay : with this nou- 

 rifhment their, milk was as good, and as 

 plentiful as it had ever been, and rhey were 

 in the bed condition pofiible. 



• § XX. 



Hhe Method of Fattening Oxen. 



I fattened four very lean oxen ; and gave 

 at firft to each, twice a day, twenty pounds 

 of thefe roots, mixed with five pounds of 

 after grafs, or of chopl* hay. At the ex^ 

 piration of a month, in confequence of in? 

 druclion that I had received from an in- 

 telligent and obferving farmer, I caufed 

 their chopt hay to be omitted, and fubfti- 

 tuted five pounds of roots in its room. 

 Thus they lived, for two months, upon roots 

 only \ and at the end of three months, 

 they were fufnciently fat for faie. They 

 always readily devoured this food, becaufe it 

 is well- tailed, tender, and requires no pre- 

 paration. 



