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at a distance, they should then, instead of baiting at 

 noon, come to the yard earlier in the evening, and 

 go out later in the morning. This is a practice 

 which cannot be too much recommended ; for so 

 warm a lodging is a great matter to young lambs, 

 and will tend much to forward their growth ; th 

 sheep will also be kept in good health ; and, what 

 is a point of consequence to all farms, the quan- 

 tity of dung raised will be very great. If this 

 method is pursued through the months of Decem- 

 ber, January, February, March, and April, with 

 plenty of litter, 100 sheep will make a dunghill of 

 at least 60 loads of excellent stuff, which will am- 

 ply manure two acres of land : whereas 100 sheep 

 folded (supposing the grass dry enough) will not 

 in that time equally manure one acre. 

 SHEEP IN ROUEN. 



Such ewes as have lambed before, and in this 

 month, should be drawn off from the flock, and 

 put into rouen in inclosed farms, to give early 

 lamb ; but this remark is not applicable to flock- 

 farms, where the grand support is the turnip crop. 

 On such, the rouen should be preserved till the pe- 

 riod of distress arrives, when turnips are done, and 

 forward grasses not ready. 



FARM-YARD. 



In this month a strict attention should be given 

 to the cattle in the yard or yards ; those I mean 

 which run loose there. Care should be taken to 

 have them regularly supplied with straw, if that be 

 the food, and that they have always water at com T 



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