574- Cultivation of Graft Land. Stall-feeding &quot;Proper Sortsvf Food for. 



not fatten one fo \vell, and the drefllng will be partial and of little value.* Mnch 

 dry food is conftantly necdfary during the life of -this fort of food in order to the 

 expeditious fattening of the animals. 



The turnip is often employed in the fattening of fnecp ; and in this application 

 it is frequently -advantageous, where the management is conducted with judgment r 

 but to derive the grcateft profit from this practice, it h probably the bed method 

 to only make ufc of them for fuch fheep as are in a confiderable ftate of.forward- 

 ncfs ; as fuch as are poor when turned to this fort of food are fcldorn found to pay 

 \vcllforit. Every farmer who has applied turnip crops in this way muft have 

 found this to be th-e cafe. Where the foils are fufnciently dry, the beft method of 

 confuming them may be on the lands, by means of hurdling; but, under the con 

 trary circumftances, they may be drawn and eaten upon a dry piece of fward. It 

 is the practice with good farmers, in many cafes, to have recourfe to oil-cake, oats, 

 barley-meal, pollard, bran, malt-duff, and other matters of the fame fort for the 

 fattening fliccp when at turnips ; as by thefe means the watery quality of that ford 

 is corrected, and the fattening of the animals, of courfe, much promoted. It is 

 perhaps only the beft fort of Iheep that can repay the expenfe of this fyftcm of 

 fattening. Thefe articles are not however abfolutely requifite in the fattening of 

 fheep on this root, as van 1 numbers are made fat without them ; but they greatly 

 promote the procefs. And it is often ufeful to have recourfe to other forts of dry 

 food with them, fuch as hay, cut chaff, or other fimilar fubftances, which mould 

 be placed in racks, cribs, or troughs made for the purpofe, the latter of which 

 fhould be fo guarded by boarding as to prevent the wind from blowing fuch light 

 fubftances out of them. There is another point that deferves attention in the fat 

 tening of fneep on turnips, in order to prevent the wafte which muft otherwife be 

 incurred, which is that of letting the portions of turnips that are left by the fatten 

 ing ftock be cleanly eaten up by 1 lean followers. 



Of the dry kinds of food employed in the fattening of cattle, there is, perhaps, 

 none equal to oil-cake in the property of fattening. It is, however, linfeed cake 

 that muft be employed in this way. The late advances in the price of this article 

 have probably rendered it incapable of being made ufeof with much profit except 

 in particular cafes, and where manure is a principal object. With this fort of 

 food, as well as thofe that have been noticed above, it is alfo the common practice 



* Clofe in Communications to the Boanl, vol. Ill, 



