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grow to fill up the spice. They grow for the most part out 

 of the ground, so that but> little trouble is met with in pull- 

 ing them from the banks. They should be put up in hills, 

 and covered just as directed for turnips, unless the farmer 

 should be blessed with a root cellar. From ten to twelve 

 pounds should be given at a feed. There are various meth- 

 ods of feeding. Some farmers prepare the food, and put 

 enough in at the morning feeding time to last all day, while 

 others keep the troughs supplied all the time, only replen- 

 ishing when the supply is about gone. But it is far better 

 to feed three times a day at a regular hour, and only give 

 enough, as can soon be ascertained by experience, to enable 

 the sheep to clean the troughs at each feed. When more is 

 given than they can eat, they will play and stamp on it, 

 getting it so defiled they will not enjoy it, arid only eating 

 in case of hunger. Besides fresh food stimulates the ap- 

 petite so that they will eat more than if they are surfeited 

 at one feed. 



"One of the most marked advantages of the South," says 

 Mr. John L. Hayes, " is the ability to grow grasses which 

 may be pastured in winter. Thus the cost of cutting the 

 grass and saving the hire of the barn for storing it, and the 

 cost of feeding it out, are dispensed with; while succulent 

 food, which at the North must be provided for by storing 

 roots and vegetables, is afforded throughout the year. By 

 the aid of winter grasses it is perfectly practicable through- 

 out a large portion of the South to raise sheep without other 

 cost than the interest on the land and the value of the salt. 

 Oats, barley and rye sown in the fall may be grazed during 

 the winter without injury to the crop of grain, as is fre- 

 quently done; but they must be sown annually, and are in- 

 ferior to permanent grass pastures. The meadow oat, 

 orchard and blue grass, with wild rye or Tyrrell grass, are 

 chiefly relied on for permanent winter-green pasture." 



Mr. Hayes might have added that for the latitude of 

 Tennessee winter wheat furnishes more good grazing for 



