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them any thing in a Morning, whereby as foon as they 
were fee forth of the Cow-pens, they would fall a feed- 
ing, and tho' they filled their Bellies only with fuch 
courfe ftuff as had little Nourishment in it, yet it would 
keep out their Bellies, and they would have a better Di- 
geftion ; and then when they were come home at Nights, 
to Fodder them, beginning with Straw and their courfeft 
Fodder, which they would learn to eat by degrees, be- 
fore they tafted that that was more delicate, and whiJft 
their Digeflion was ftrong, would yield them Nourifh- 
ment to keep them dill 16, afterwards when the Win- 
ter pinched, their fine Fodder then would ftand thenr 
in (lead ; and hereby they might preferve their weakeft 
Cattle,by thefe Methods,and the help of the Wheat- patch, 
She, the Gentlemowan where Hived, favedall her Cattle,, 
and loft not one in Two Winters after, that [ (laid there ; 
befides (he faved above Twenty Barrels of Corn, as I 
remember that fhe told me Ihe ufed to fpend upon her 
Stock ; and a Barrel of Corn is commonly worth Ten 
Shillings. Nay further, The laft Spring fhe fed Two 
Beads, a Bullock and a Cow, fat, upon her Wheat, with 
the addition only of a little boil'd Corn , and yet the 
Whe&t was (carce eat down enough, but to return again 
to the nature of the earth, which may be pretty well 
gathered from what I have already faid. I have obftr- 
ved, that at Five or Six yards deep, at the breakes of 
fome banks, I have found veins of Clay , admirable good 
to make Pots, Pipes, or the like of, and whereof I fup- 
pofe the Indians make their Pipes, and Pots, to boil 
their Meat in, which they make very handfbmly, and 
will endure the Fire better then mod Crucibles : I took 
of this Clay, dryed, powdered, and lifted it ; powdered 
and fifted potftieards, and glafs ,* Three pan s, Two parts 
and One part as f remember, and therewith made a Ir^ge 
Crucible, which was the belt I yet ever tried in my 
Life; Itookit once red hot out of the Fire, .and clapt it 
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