222 SYSTEM OF FARMING. 



Xo. 1st weiijlit. 2a weiglit. Whole ?ain. 



1 210 1b 227 1b 17 1b. 



2 220 233 13 



3 215 220 5 



4 212 217 5 



5 205 220 15 



G 19G 210 14 



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wliicli gives a gain per week of weig-lit to eacli sheep on the 

 average of somewhat more than 3| lb. When they were 

 first " put up," they ate not less than 20 lb. of Swedes a day 

 each ; but latterly they have not consumed more than 15 lb. 

 of roots, one-half being Swedes, the other half Dale's hybrids 

 • — the 160 sheep ate daily 1 bushel of linseed, which weighed 

 63 lb., and 1 bushel of beans, w^hich gives 5 lb. of seed and 

 beans per sheep each day on the average. If we assume the 

 value of turnips to be 15^. the ton, the value of 



105 1b 8.1 J. 



5 lb. of beans and linseed 7 



Attendance per sheep 1 



Or 1*. 4i<Z.' 



' In reference to the above computation, Mr. Huxtable admits the cor- 

 rectness of the explanation given by the editor of the Agricultural Gazette in 

 reply to a correspondent of that journal. It is this — that Mr. Huxtable 

 named 1*. 4jrf. as the price per sheep, for which he was able and willing to 

 dispose of his weekly increase of mutton ; finding this to repay him for linseed 

 and attendance, and leaving Shd. for the turnips consumed, a sum equal 

 to the 15*. per ton objected to as unnecessarily high by the correspondent 

 alluded to, as no doubt it is, if understood to mean the cost of obtaining 

 them, instead of their (possible) value when obtained. Mr. Huxtable 

 himself, in farther explanation, writes thus : " The object of that part of 

 my statement was to show the high value of the turnips and green crop 

 when consumed by sheep properly sheltered. They who heard me would 

 not think that 15*. a ton was too great a price to be given for Swedes, if 

 eaten by a well bred ox comfortably housed, though they are not worth 

 half that sum to be fed off by a flock in rain, fog, sleet, snow, and puddle, 

 700 feet above the sea. The figures which I then gave, if correct, showed 

 that the turnips to my sheep were worth more than 15s. a ton, and there- 

 fore that my * dear' green crops were worth more than 15/. per acre. 

 The estimates which I made of all my expenses were intentionally placed 

 to their extreme limit, but this year the cost of the seed will be I fear more 

 than \l. per acre. Your corresjiondent has omitted after the wheat crop 

 the three bushels of vetches, or of rye, and I never sow less than lb. or 

 7 lb. of turnip seed, and carrot seed is to-day given at As. a jjound. My pea 

 seed will alone cost 1/. an acre, and the land must bear turnips or mangold 

 wurzel beside. ' S. X.' inquires, through the widely circulated Agricul- 

 tural Gazette, after my pig secret. This is hardly fair to my Sturminster 

 friends, who have not yet ' given up' the puzzle ; still, as your corre- 



