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out the lead inconvenience, eat of thefe 

 leaves, for their whole nourishment, during 

 eight, and even to fifteen following days. 

 From the very fir ft days, they will give a 

 greater quantity of milk, and cream of the 

 very beft quality : but if they mould be con- 

 tinued to.be fed with this forage only, it 

 would foon be apparent, that they fattened 

 at a furprizing rate; in a fhort time the milk 

 will diminifh, and the fubftance turn entirely 

 to fat. Thefe leaves produce the fame effect 

 on fheep and oxen ; from whence a judgment 

 may be formed of the great facility, with 

 which they may be fattened, by this fpecies 

 of nourifiiment alone. 



In order to keep milch cows in fuch a 

 manner, as to caufe them to continue to 

 produce their full quantity of milk, it is ne- 

 ceftary to mix with thefe leaves, from time 

 to time, a third or a fourth part of that kind 

 of grafs or herbage, with which they have 

 been generally nourifhed. This grafs, or 

 herbage, may be given to them once every 

 day ; or one day in three they may be fed 

 with it entirely. By this fimple method only, 



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