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the cattle had been fed for the laſt ten weeks entirely upon the offfals of fiſh, and that the cows preferred dried ſalmon to hay.”

Well may the Londoner, after reading ſuch an account as this, ſuppoſe that all cattle, which are fatted with oil-take are fed with animal food.

Whether you inſert this or not,

I remain yours,

Glouceſter, June 15, 1802. P. TURNER.

ORTE D rern——— ON MAKING HAY. To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. DIV

AM„juít returned from a viſitto Cricklade, in the county of

Wilts. In the vicinity of this town, I ſaw fuch land, ſach hay, and ſo judicious a method of making haÿ, as I never WiIt- neſled before: I am therefore deſirous of once more appearing before thé public in print. The land here, though a ftrong clay to the very ſurface, produces an herbage very luxuriant, and at the ſame time fine, and plentifully intermixed with white clover, and likewiſe tolerably early. This herbage, when converted into hay, according to the excellent practice of this neighbourhood, 1s found to be equally fattening with the beſt hay and corn, or hay and oil-cake, of almoſt any other diftri& in his Majeſty’ domi- nions. Indeed nothing but graſs and hay are ever uſed here in the proceſs of fattening even the largeſt oxen; and this cir- cumítance convinces me, that there is not ſo much merit in the mode adopted by Lord Somerville, to aſcertain the comparative diſpoſitions of different breeds of cattle to fatteñ, as is generally imagined. His Lordſhip’s method may ſerve to diſcover the comparative excellence of the land which produces their food, but not of the cattle. To aſcertain this, the food of all ſhould be of the ſane quality. For there is more difference in the qua- lity of land, and in the reſpedtive food which it produces, than in the breeds of cattle. Take two yoke of oxen of the ſame breed, ofthe ſame value, and in the ſame condition, and feed one yoke in the above neigbbourbood, and the other 0n land of 1nfe=- rior quality, on the beſtland in the occupation of the Duke of Bed- ford, for inſtance; and at the end of ten months it will be found, that the yoke fatted in the vicinity of Cricklade will be heavier by one-fourth of their whole weight, than the yoke which was fed at Woburn. If the graziers in this part of Wiltſhire ſhould think it worth their while to exert themſelves in the purſuit of the premiums given by Lord Somerville, no other graziers in the kingdom could poſſibly contend with them.

In the mode of making hay here, they excel as much as in their herbage. I Mall therefore relate a few particulars of their proceſs, as given me by one of them.“ My chief con1deration