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was hurdled off for them, which they devoured 
very greedily. Late in the evening they were 
turned back into a very fmall paddock adjoining, 
about 2+ acres, which had been before eaten down 
bare. The next morning, nearly as much frefh 
ground was taken into the former pen as-would 
ferve them for the day, and the fheep put back to 
the paddock in the evening as before. This me- 
thod was followed through the whole of the expe- 
riment; excepting that, after a few days, the frefh 
pen was kept feparate from the ftale one, and the 
fheep only fuffered to remain in the former, about 
two hours in the morning, and two in the after. 
noon; the reft of the day they remained in the 
ftale pen, by which means many ftalks, not wholly 
confumed, were afterwards eaten. I kept thefe 
fheep exactly two months; when the quantity con- 
fumed was meafured, and found to be a trifle more 
than one acre and a quarter ftatute meafure. 
Though thefe fheep were kept in a fatting way, 
yet they had no hay given them, twice only ex- 
cepted: when, after a confiderable fall of fnow, 
fucceeded by rain, and that by a fevere froft, the 
owner fent a little hay upon a horfe, of which they 
ate but little, finding no difficulty in coming at 
_ their green food, in fpite of the deep fnow. My 
neighbours were not only ftruck with the great ad- 
vantage of this crop over common turnips in this 
refpect; but likewife in wet weather, when the 
fheep 
