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may be more economically confumed by having the plants cut, and given by hand in that{tate to the animals that feed upon. them, while another clafs may be more profitably confumed by being depaftured

by animals. Required, a lift of each of thefe two claffes of plants.

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It will be in general allowed, that the two plants mentioned above, broad clover and Lucerne, are more advantageoufly confumed when cut and given green by the hand, than when paftured upon. Pro- bably, this may likewife be, in fome mea- fure, the cafe with all quick-fhooting ftrong-ftemmed plants, that do not grow clofe enough at the root to form a firm bottom for animals to bite upon. It is likewife probable, that, in general, fuch clofe-growing leafy graffes as require to be con{umed green, and other weak fuccu- lent trailing plants, which run along the ground, and form a thick{ward there, but do not rife quickly to a great height, fo as to admit of being readily cut by the fcythe, would be more profitable for pafturage.— But, here again, we are in the r egion of

probability;