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the common wood-bine, or honey-fuckle*; fome of the freett fhooting, and moft her- baceous forts+ of which crow to a very great length in one feafon; and, if ma- naged in the fame manner, would, no doubt, yield a prodigious weight of fodder. { find, that fome cattle{ eat the leaves and tender fhoots of this plant without

* Lonicera Periclymenum.

+ There is avery great difference in this refpect, among the different kinds of wood-bines. The wild fort, with woolly leaves, and long thread-like ftalks, would be very improper. The beft fort feems to be one that has thick and ftrong fhoots, of a greenifh colour, with a tinge of red on one fide, large bright-coloured fmoot! fucculent leaves, and a large tuft of big flowers, yellow tinged with red on the outfide, which begin to open about the middle of June, and continue to blow till the end of the feafon.

t The reader ought to be informed, that there is a very great difference among cattle in this refpe€. Some cows, efpecially thofe that have been bred with garden- ers, refufe hardly any green thing; others can fcarcely be prevailed with to eat any thing but common gra{s. The beft way to bring a beaft to eat any kind of food it has not been accuftomed with, is to make it ftand near one which eats the kind of food you mean to give it. In a fhort time, moft animals will be brought, in this man- ner, without conftraint, to eat almoft any fort of food that

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