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be in perfection. Then put either six beasts or sixty sheep, in 

 the manner here directed, according to the plan of the movable 

 houses, herein annexed, either for cattle or sheep. Let the cab 

 bages and leaves be carefully cut oif, leaving the cabbage stalks 

 cut across at the top, to grow again. The cabbages, upon good 

 land, may be expected to average fifteen pounds apiece, which 

 will be, upon the acre, two hundred and seventeen thousand eight 

 hundred pounds, or one hundred and eight tons eighteen hundred 

 weight, at five score to the hundred weight. Allow to each beast, 

 or ten sheep, two hundred pounds every day and night, which will 

 be twelve hundred pounds a day and night, for six beasts, or sixty 

 sheep ; in eighty-four days, or twelve weeks, these will be fat. 

 Then put up six other beasts, or sixty more sheep, which will 

 fatten in the same time and manner, viz., at the end of the half 

 year. Eighty cabbages will have been consumed daily, amount 

 ing to fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty cabbages, just 

 the number planted upon the acre, which, taken at fifteen pounds 

 apiece, amounts to one hundred and eight tons eighteen hundred 

 weight, at five score to the hundred weight; so that the feed of 

 twelve beasts, or one hundred and twenty sheep, stands as under. 



Tons. Ciot. 



For 84 days, or 12 weeks, 6718 cabbages, at 15 Ibs. apiece, 50 8 



&quot; 84 &quot; &quot; 12 &quot; 6718 &quot; 50 8 



&quot; 13J &quot; &quot; 2 &quot; 1084 &quot; &quot; &quot; &quot; &quot; 82 



184 &quot; &quot; 26 &quot; 14520 &quot; &quot; &quot; &quot; 108 18 



As soon as you begin to clear off a few rows of cabbages, after 

 the 1st of June, spread the dung and urine carefully over the 

 ground, leaving all the cabbage stalks, which will soon sprout 

 again ; then with a small hoe work the ground regularly over, 

 so as to cover the manure, and sow turnip seed amongst your 

 cabbage stalks, as you clear off the cabbages, and continue to do 

 so till you have gone all over the ground the first time. About 

 thtj 1st of November you will have another crop of keep as good 

 as the first ; and then, as you clear off all the cabbage sprouts and 

 turnips, you must again properly apply your manure all over the 

 land, as before, which is now either to be ploughed or dug, and 

 planted as at first. Thus you will have a regular succession of 

 good keep, and if the winter s produce be what may be expected 

 from good management, the same acre of land will feed, in one 



