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of the cross rails firm in the ground, with a slant to 

 your liking, to form your rack. These cribs, and 

 racks will be both cheap, and of a great saving in 

 your feeding. 



Draw your late rotted hemp and set it up across 

 your fences, for a winter's drying. Cart into your 

 barn-yard every thing that may be converted into 

 manure. Crop lightly your late feeding grounds, 

 such as clover, timothy, or English mowing, both by 

 your cattle, horses and sheep. Feed off your turnips 

 with your sheep, as they stand, by the use of hurdles, 

 if possible, and in the following manner, viz. collect 

 a number of chesnut stakes 6 feet long, and about 3 

 inches. square, and sharpen them at the bottom ; nail 

 on to two of these stakes five strips of boards, (saw- 

 ed for the purpose,) of about 4 or 5 inches wide, and 

 10 or 12 feet long, fasten each strip with two 10 pen- 

 ny nails, in each stake, thus nailing on the five strips 

 at such distances as will be of sufficient height to se- 

 cure your sheep in their enclosure. When you have 

 prepared a sufficient number of hurdles to enclose 

 one or two roods of your turnip field, let two hands 

 set the hurdles for the enclosure, with a crow-bar, or 

 a wooden bar sharpened for the purpose ; this may 

 be done quick, and at very small expense, in the 

 following manner ; let one hand (after the hurdles are 

 laid round the place of enclosure,) hold up a hurdle 

 erect, and the other with the bar strike into the earth 

 the holes for the stakes, (at the foot of each stake.) 

 then plant the hurdle; then the next, and so on in 

 succession until the enclosure is finished ; then turn 

 in your sheep, cows, or cattle ; when one enclosure 

 is fed off and you have a desire to enrich that parti- 

 cular spot, for any special purpose, as for onions, 

 carrots, scarcity-root, &c*. you may pull the rest of 

 your field and cart on your turnips and feed them upon 

 the spot ; but if it is your wish to enrich your whole 

 field for wheat and clover ; you may remove your hur- 

 dles, and set again, and thus feed off the whole crop; 



