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after the frefti Grafs, where they perilh \ fo 

 that feveral Perfonslole ten,twentyor thirty 

 Head of Cattle in a Year : I obferved this 

 was much owing td their Inadvertency and 

 ferrorin thdi" way of Managing and Feeding 

 them i for they get little Fodder, but as they 

 think Corn being more Nourifliing, feed them 

 with their tndidn Corn, which they give them 

 Morning and Evening ^ they ipend thus a 

 great quantity of Corn, and when all's done^ 

 what fignifies two or three Heads of Cora 

 to a Beaft in a Morning ? It makes them 

 only linger about the Houfes for more ? and 

 after that fweet Food they are not fo prompt 

 to brouze on the Trees, and the courfe Qrafs 

 which the Country affords. So that thus 

 their Guts fhrink up, and they become Belly^ 

 ihot as they call it. I advifed therefore ne- 

 ver to give them any thing in a Mornings 

 whereby as foon as they were fet forth of 

 the Cow-pens, they would fall a feeding, and 

 tho' they filled their Bellies only with fueh 

 courfe fluff as had little Nourifliment in it^ 

 yet it would keep out their Bellies, and they 

 would have a better Digeftion ^ and thea 

 when they were come home at Nights, to 

 Fodder them^ beginning with Straw and 

 their courfeft Fodder,which they would learii 

 to eat by degrees, before they tafted that 

 that was more delicate, and whilft their di-* 

 geRion was ftrong, would yield them Nou- 

 rifliment to keep them ftiil fo J afterwards 

 when the Winter pinched, their fine Fod- 

 der then would ftand them in ftead j and 

 hereby they might preferve their weakeffc 

 Cattle. By thefe Methods, and the help of 



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