150 SHEEP IX ROUKX. [MARCH. 



no longer, with any propriety, be depended upon. 

 If the farmer has not a great breadth of ray-grass, 

 or some other dependence, he must sell off his 

 fatting sheep sooner than he desires, and stop the 

 growth of his lambs, at a time when thev ought 

 to be half fat. 



In fattening wethers, the great object is to keep 

 from selling till the middle of April. To begin 

 then, and keep killing till the end of May, is the 

 most profitable conduct, for the price that a but- 

 cher will then give, exceeds what he would have 

 given two or three months earlier. How advan- 

 tageous is it, therefore, to have food ready to take 

 all the stock by the middle of March, and to have 

 enough to last till May. 



SHEEP IN STUBBLE TURNIPS. 

 One of the resources for sheep feeding, at this 

 pinching season, is stubble turnips. A good ma- 

 ii.-igcT. who finds a field of warm, forward, rich, 

 land harvested early (whatever may have been the 

 crop), will sow turnips, with a view to sheep-feed 

 in March and April. If they are not sown early 

 they will consist of little more than shoots, but as 

 they run up very rapidly at this time of the year, 

 they aflbrd much food, and are truly useful, at a 

 season when every blade is valuab! 



SI I HEP IN ROUEN. ' 



As turnips are by this time done, or ought to 

 be done, the farmer will now find the immense im- 

 portance of that reserve of kept grab.-, called rouen 



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