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the same plot from six days to three weeks. Mj own judgment 

 is, that by constantly interchanging the fold and the scythe, the 

 necessary range, even of breeding-ewes, may be very much lessened. 

 In wet weather, we have trouble with their feet if they are allowed 

 to tread the ground overmuch. But I am gradually forming yards 

 to be asphalted, in which I propose to have them always fed in very 

 wet weather, allowing them the open pasture at other times. I 

 think the scythe or mowing-machine should be constantly at 

 work ; during the past year I was cutting grass with the machine 

 from the beginning of May to the middle of November. In the 

 spring and autumn the mown grass has been further cut into 

 chaff, with straw for the bullocks and horses ; but the sheep have 

 had it carried to their troughs fresh cut. 



The 70 lambs were with their mothers to the beginning of June ; 

 I then hired a piece of clover for them for one month. On the 

 1st of July they came back to the glebe, and have ever since been 

 upon it in two pens, 38 ewes and 32 rams. Since the 1st of July, the 

 ewe lambs have been over about 10 acres of ground, in part twice 

 (the scythe intervening), in folds of i to i of an acre : the ram 

 lambs have been kept rather closer. The ewe lambs had about 

 I" lb. of meal each from June to October, then i lb., and since 

 Christmas ^ lb., the maximum allowed to ewes. The rams 

 began with the same quantity, but were pushed forward more 

 quickly, and from October to the present time have been getting 

 rather more than 1 lb. each. On the day I write (Jan. 21st), I 

 have ascertained that the following are the actual allowances : — 



32 ram hogs : — s. d. 



5 cwts. of roots, at 12s 3 a day. 



36 lbs. meal, at lie? 3 9 „ 



15 lbs. chaff 6 „ 



7 3 or 2f d per sheep a day. 

 37 ewe hogs : — s. d. 



.5 cwts. of roots 3 a day. 



18 lbs. meal 1 lOi „ 



15 lbs. chaff 6 



Attendance on — 

 80 ewes. 

 32 ram hogs. 

 37 ewe hogs. 



5 43 or IfcZ. per sheep a day. 



149 sheep. One man's wages, 12s. a week, or Id. a week per sheep. 

 These allowances represent the highest cost of keep during the 

 year ; and I find that they correspond very nearly with the allow- 

 ance at the corresponding period of last year. The bullocks are 

 having 10 lbs. of the mixed food, and the horses 4 lbs., with hay 

 and straw chaff, but no roots. 



