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and to support millions of industrious inliU' 
bitants of this country. 
to' 
Tile recommendation, that we should 
' make our cattle eat all our straw instead of 
using a part of it for manure, which is ge- 
nerally pra6tised, is very short-sighted. 
More bullocks might, indeed, be produced 
by the measure; buf if is well known by 
pradlical farmers, that the excrements of ani- 
mals fed upon straw contain very little of the 
essential qualities of good manure ; that the 
quantityor substance is reduced to one- fourth; 
and, in situations where no other means can 
be resorted to for manure than what is pro- 
duced in the way recommended by Mr. 
Brooke, the crops of corn and grass must 
be diminished exceedingly, and, of course, a 
scarcity of the food of man and animals 
will be the consequent result. Tiie saving 
of manure in towns is daily increasing in 
pra6fiGe. 
Mr. Brooke's hints, that as a means of di- 
minishing the excessive number of horses, 
