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here principally to the cutting of hay. Mr. Knight be¬ 
lieves straw does not contain much nutriment, and I 
have heard an idea expressed by others that cutting, or 
otherwise eating large quantities of straw by live stock, 
lessens the dunghill without much improving, or in- 
deek properly supporting such stock : good hay cut 
small will be clean eaten up, without any waste, either 
mixed with a little corn or alone. I am of opinion that 
his machine, from its good performance and dispatch of 
business, ought to be brought into general use. 
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The waggons, carts, and wheel carriages of this, 
county, have nothing peculiar in their construction, but 
are made of strength and weight in proportion to the 
uses for which they are meant; those for the road 
and for heavy loading being strong and weighty in pro¬ 
portion to the burden they are intended to bear; I how¬ 
ever, observed Mr.'Knight’s dung carts, to be of a neat, 
compact, and light structure, and some of the harvest 
waggons in the county have a similar merit, and are 
contrived for short turning, by means of a crooked, or 
arch formed side of the waggon at the fore end, splicing 
to the middle piece, and enabling the fore wheel to 
strike under the bed of the waggon, so as to turn round 
in a small compass; and, indeed, nothing can be a great¬ 
er instance of mismanagement than to have a wheel 
carriage unwieldy, or of a weight to over load the team; 
for if the tool be too heavy, that strength is exhausted 
in wielding it, which should produce the effect; the 
lightening therefore of wheel carriages, so far as is con¬ 
sistent with the necessary strength, is an object of great 
importance in rural economy. 
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