APRIL.] SHEEP. 



must be assigned to keep the sliecp through 

 April. 



The number of acres of that young growth ne- 

 cessary to keep an hundred sheep and lambs is 

 surprizing : so that these farmers, although they 

 manage to spring-feed more sheep than the worst 

 of their brethren, yet effect it at a great expcnce, 

 and at last not in any degree comparable to what 

 might be done. 



A turnip should never be s.vn on the ground 

 after March. For the month of April,, the farmer 

 should have a field of cabbages ready, which, yield- 

 ing a great produce on a small breadth of ground, 

 reduces the evil of a late spring sowing ; and, if lie 

 manages as he ought, totally excludes it. The 

 turnip-cabbage, and ruta baga, will last as long as 

 wanted ; and, though it runs to seed, yet the bulb 

 will not be sticky. The green boorcole may be 

 fed off several times. It is impenetrable to frost, 

 and will make shoots in the winter. 



Another crop for feeding sheep in spring, which 

 is of particular merit, is burnet. An acre of 

 it, managed properly, will at this season yield much 

 more food than an acre of clover and rav -grass. 

 It should be four or five inches high in November, 

 and left so through the winter. Burnet has the 

 singular quality of maintaining its green leaves 

 through the winter : so that, under deep snows, 

 you find some luxuriance of vegetation. From 

 November to February the crop will gain two or 

 three inches in growth in the young leaves, and 

 then be ready for sheep. It will be better in 



March, 



