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the quality, and increaſing the quantity of their milk.

In other countries, we are told, that ſalt diſſolved into

brine, is ſprinkled over the paſture-land, which makes the graſs much whol ſomer, and more nouriſhing. Salt alſo, is mixed amongſt the hay when it is put up, greatly to its and the experience of the cow-keepers in the

adval ae; neighbourhood of London, ſufficiently aſcertains the

greater ariaide with which cattle devour their food, when mixed with falt, than when no ſuch ingredient is put into it; a practice which they have been obliged to give up, in conſequence of the expence attending it. Salt, alſo, is an excellent manure, particularly for rich land. If the im- portance of ſalt to hu ſbandry were ſufficiently underſtood, iſlature, would ſoon be

there can be no doubt, that the leg induced, to raiſe the ſame ſum of money, which the tax on ſalt produces, by ſome other mode, leſs prejudicial to

the general intereſts of the country.

It is remarkable, that all the environs of London, there is hardly a pond to be met with, that a horfe can drink of,

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or that is almoſt fit for waſhing his heels in.—A few ponds freſh water, eſpecially upon the great roads entering the

0f city, would not only be a very great comfort and eaſe to the traveller, but alſo a great convenience to the people re- fiding in the immediate neighbourhood. It is alſo believed, that in Middleſex fufficient attention is not paid to the

having of ponds in the fields for the uſe of the cattle;

from which circumſtance, in dry ſeafons, they fuffer much.

Middleſex can never be a breeding sof ſtock likely to be attended to in it, are cattle

only kinds ck

and horſes. In regard to the firſt, more n to the breed may be ſafely recommended. The neigbourhood of the metropolis, ought to be diſtinguiſhed h the beſt breed,

of every ſort of animal, cultivated there. In that, as well

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