118 THE FARMER'S MANUAL. 



Whatever multiplies feed for your stock, enlarges 

 the quantity of your hay, and enables you to in- 

 crease the quantity of your stock. Whatever will 

 enable you to increase the quantity of your stock, 

 increases the value of your property directly, and 

 the subsequent value of your farm indirectly, by in- 

 creasing the quantity of your manure, and thereby 

 the quantity and value of your crops ; thus you see 

 that your potatoe fallows, which do not exhaust your 

 soil, may be made the source of great improvement 

 and wealth to the farmer*. 



Your sheep should be fed daily upon potatoes ; no 

 article of stock will repay you with greater profit ; 

 the quantity of their wool will be greater, and qua- 

 lity finer ; they will be free from ticks, unless kept in 

 too warm a covering, and too many in a fold ; they 

 will never shed their wool, and seldom lose their 

 lambs, when fed daily upon potatoes. The saving 

 of hay will be as great as with your ^>ther stock in 

 the same ratio. The rage of our country has been 

 great for the merino breed of sheep; this has now 

 subsided, and the farmers generally calculate to keep 

 a due proportion of the English and merino breeds, 

 to suit the mutton and wool markets. Experience 

 can only be the true guide upon this subject. 



Your affairs are now all snug, and well arranged; 

 let your accounts claim your particular attention. 

 They should all be posted by the first of this month, 

 and all balanced and closed, before the month is out ; 

 the saving you will make in yearly reckonings with 

 your merchants, mechanics, labourers, &c. will rich- 

 ly repay your attention. Perhaps there is no one 

 thing in which farmers generally are more slack, than 

 in their accounts, and it is of importance that i!, 

 should be corrected. 



* From the best calculations made by the best feeders, carrot- -m-; 

 potatoes, i.re found to be worth ( 2s. per bushel boiled and giv* n t 

 hogs, or given raw to beef cattle, or Is. when given to hosjs, * 

 or unboiled* 



