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reluGtance. Whether it would afford them a wholefome nourifhment, I have not had experience enough to fay;—but there is no reafon to think it would not.

Willows, and many other trees, afford long and tender fhoots, which might pof- fibly be of ufe in this way on fome occa- fions, were they properly tried.

This is a walk in agriculture, that may be faid to be in fome meafure untrod:

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and although thefe obfervations may to fome appear whimfical, yet the fubject does not on that account the lefs merit the attention of the liberal-minded. en- quirer into the principles of rural eco- nomy.,

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It is fuppofed, that fome plants may not yield fuch wholefome food for animals when green, as when made into hay; and that, perhaps, others, on the contrary, ai ford better nourifhment asa

grecn food, | than as a dry.——_Wanted, an exa¢t lift | of all our plants, compared with one an-

4= te oe oa 7 other in this re{pect, with regard to each of the domeftic animals above named.