Cultivation of Grafs- Land. Gra%ing.&amp;lt;Graf$-Lam$, 



ready for the butcher : befides, it is fuppofed by fome,, that after the firft flufh of 

 milk is gone and it begins to be fcanty, the lambs thrive better &quot; on grafs alone, 

 away from the ewes,&quot; than when kept along with them, as the hankering after the 

 little milk that is afforded prevents their feeding freely on the grafs. Where this, 

 method is followed, which can probably be with advantage only where the milk of 

 the ewes is greatly deficient in fupporting and bringing the lambs forward, much 

 retention muft be paid to having the keep early and in abundance. In this view 

 rye-grafs and white clover for early ufe, and broad clover at a later period, may 

 be the moft proper and ufeful crops. In this management the ewes mould be 

 carefully examined occafionally ; and where much deficiency in the milk is found, 

 the lambs be immediately removed to the paftures. 



The proportion in which different forts of cattle and fheep flock mould be in 

 troduced upon the grafs lands with the view of being fattened, muft depend 

 chiefly upon the goodnefs of the land, the fize of the flock, and various other 

 circumflances that have been already noticed.* In Somerfetfhire, when at grafs 



* In the able Agricultural Survey of Lincolufliire, Mr. Young in order to afford a more clear 

 idea of the various proportions, has drawn them into the following tabular form for the richer nuf- 

 tures in that diftrift : 



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