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them in piles to suit, and then cover about with two feet of 

 leaves, stalks or straw, and a few inches of earth thrown 

 over them. About as many turnips should be put in each 

 hill as are required for a day's feeding, so that when a hill 

 is broken it will be fed up before it is destroyed by freezing. 



How will they be fed ? There are only two plans, and 

 sometimes both plans will have to be adopted unless the 

 flock is large enough to render unnecessary the second. 

 The first plan is to turn on the sheep and let them eat them 

 in the ground, as they grew. When this plan is pursued, 

 the owner gets the benefit of the foliage as well as the root. 

 Sheep sometimes show a disinclination to eat them at first, 

 but a little salt sprinkled on the tops to start them will 

 give a taste that will soon cause them to eat gredily. If 

 they are allowed access to the whole field at once, they will 

 destroy and waste more than they will eat, nibbling here and 

 there the green tops, and leaving the roots to rot. There- 

 fore they should be confined to a particular spot until the 

 turnips are consumed. They should never be allowed on 

 more turnips than they will consume in two days and nights. 

 One thousand head will consume one acre of good turnips 

 every twenty-four hours, and the estimate can be made from 

 this basis. A portable fence should be used to fence off a 

 few acres at a time, and the sheep kept* on this plat until 

 the turnips are consumed. 



Some farmers, and it is a most excellent idea, use hurdles 

 to confine the sheep to pastures, as well as to turnip fields. 

 Hurdles are made in the following manner : Take a four- 

 square scantling, any length desired, and bore holes 

 through it at right angles, one on each side alternately, 

 about ten inches apart. Then put through these holes stakes 

 six feet long. The holes should be two inches in diameter, 

 and the stakes should be of good tough white oak. When 

 completed, it will have the stakes projecting in four direc- 

 tions three feet long. Laid upon the ground it presents a 

 chevaux-de-frise that no sheep will jump. A double row of 



