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ON THE 



FOLDING OF SHEEP: 



Br EZRA VHOMMEDIEU, Es^ 



ON obferving that flieep kept by fhepherds in flocks, and 

 folded every night, for the purpofe of manuring land, were 

 poor and fmall, compared to others which were kept in no 

 better paitures, and not folded, I determined to make an 

 experiment of the profits which might arife to the farmer by 

 folding 'his flocks of fheep, which I concluded might be 

 advantageous, if properly conducted ; for this purpofe, on 

 the firft day of June, the year before iafl, I fenced and 

 ploughed up one acre in a field which contained about feventy 

 acres, and on which were kept eighty grown fheep, and fixty 

 lambs. I concluded that if the fheep were folded every 

 night at fun-down, and let out every morning by fun-rife, 

 the fheep would not be much iujured, the crop of wheat 

 propofed to be raifed on the acre, v/ould be confiderable, and 

 iJhe land much improved, which then was very poor. 



The fheep were properly attended to, which v/as eafy to 

 be done, as the fold was in the Iheep-paflure, and 'the farm 

 houfe not more than twenty rods from the fold. I ioo'n 



