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the farmer’s manual. 
and mixed with provinder for horses, or mixed with 
boiled flax-seed for fattening beef-cattle, as will be 
shown by J\lr Landon of Litchfield. All these modes 
of using straw, fully show its value as an object of 
importance to the careful farmer ; but the improve- 
ment of Mr. Landon, gives it a value of the first im- 
portance. When straw is used for litter, either for 
hogs, cattle, or horses, it is generally allowed that 
one ton (the usual product of one acre of wheat or 
rye) will produce four tons of manure ; this will dress 
one acre of corn, or potatoes, in the hill, and thus 
give a profit on the crops of 10 or 15 dollars ; where- 
as 5 dollars may be considered as a fair market price 
for straw for feeding: leaving a balance in favour of 
littering, of 5 to 10 dollars, besides the benefit from 
the warmth derived by the cattle and horses ; •allow- 
ing the increased value of the land to pay for carting, 
&c. By this value of straw, when used for litter, 
may. be seen the value of stubble when mown, and 
carted into the hog-pen, or barn-yard, or even housed 
for litter for the winter ; the undergrowth which gene- 
rally may be mown with the stubble, will both in- 
crease the quantity and value of the stubble, for litter, 
if applied in its green state to the hog-pen, or barn- 
yard, or even cured and housed for the winter’s litter. 
The dilference between the value of such stubble, 
when mown and used as above, and when left to waste 
on the ground, will not admit of a comparison. Try 
it and see. Although the practice of ridging in stub- 
ble and its undergrowth, immediately alter harvest, 
may be accounted good husbandry, especially when 
labour is difficult to be obtained, yet if the farmer 
can find time to collect his stubble as above, he will 
always find it to his interest, provided it be done im- 
mediately after harvest, before the straw has suffered 
waste. 
Tillage. 
Should you have been under the necessity of driv- 
ing your arable lands too fast with Indian-corn, or 
