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ought not to be cxpedled from its aid. It is to the 

 intelligent grazier and the gentleman, well verfed 

 in the knowledge of the indigenous plants, fraught 

 with careful obfervation, and pradifed in the eco- 

 nomy of cattle, that the reft muft be owing. No- 

 thing but the want of this knowledge, in fuch 

 gentlemen as refide in the country chiefly, can de- 

 prive us of the benefit which might otherwife ac- 

 crue from reducing it into practice. The eradi- 

 cating from paftures poifonous and ufelefs weeds, 

 would be but one, although indeed no mean one, 

 among many other advantages. Further than this, 

 the hufbandman would be better enabled to fuit 

 his feveral forts of cattle to the different paf- 

 tures in his pofTeffion, more to their benefit, 

 and confequently his own. Even in marfhy 

 grounds, where it is a difficult undertaking to 

 mend the foil, the growth of many plants might 

 be encouraged, and the feeds of others fown, 

 which are highly acceptable to different kinds of 

 cattle^ By degrees too we fhould undoubtedly be 

 led to the cultivation of other vegetables befides 

 (lover, as fodder , . and the foregoing obfervations 

 imply, that this might be done in foils and fitua- 

 tions where that would not thrive. Our hay 

 would in confequence be much improved ; for al- 

 though cattle will eat thofe herbs among hay, 

 which they reje6t while green and growing, yet it 

 does not follow that all are in their dried ftatc 

 equally nutritive and wholefbme. The benefits, in 

 fine, which would arife from a diligent and general 

 purfuit of thefe hints, would undoubtedly be vari- 

 ous and extenfive, and many more, in all probabi- 

 lity, 



