Mr. VHommedicu on the Folding of Sheep. 



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dlfcovered, after folding the flieep, which began about the 

 middle of June, that they did not look fo well as iifual, and 

 was advifed by the overfeer to difcontinue the pradice : I 

 determined however to make the experiment, and continued 

 the folding till the firfl of Anguft. After which the ground 

 was fowed with wheat, fome turnip-feed and red clover-feed. 

 The lambs were fo much injured by the pradlice, that they ' 

 fold for one {hilling lefs on an average than thofe which were 

 raifed on the fame paflure before and fmce ; and the grown 

 fheep fuffered fo much, that by the beft judgment I could 

 make, by confidering their being poorer than otherwife they 

 would have been, and calculating the reduced quantity of 

 wool which they yielded the next fpring, that the average 

 lofs was two {hillings on each grown {heep. The wheat was 

 hurt by the winter, though had it not been for this 

 circumflance, by computing that part which was not v/inter 

 killed, the product would have been {ifteen bulhels. Sixty 

 bu{hels of turnips were pulled from the fame ground^ and 

 I expeded that the land would have been fo improved as to 

 produce a good crop of hay the next year, but in this 1 was 

 difappointed ; the wheat and the turnips having exhaufled 

 almo{l the whole of the manure which was obtained by the 

 {heep, and the land left in a flate not much fuperior to what it 

 was at firfl. 



