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has never caused sheep or lambs to blow or scour. Eighteen 

 perches of this plant per day, with a little oat straw, has kept 

 270 sheep for three months without the loss of one." Summer 

 cabbage comes in for use in June. The trefoil and trifolium 

 stubbles are ploughed up close behind the sheep, and drilled in 

 or planted with sprouting broccoli or kale. We are unfor- 

 tunately in the dark as to the area of this farm. Mr. Russell 

 stated that at one period in the autumn they had 264 acres of 

 cabbage, kale, and broccoli ; 30 acres of swedes, and 30 acres of 

 mangolds. "We have alluded to Mr. Russell's paper in order to 

 direct attention to the cabbage and kale, which evidently are 

 particularly suitable to his requirements. 



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