20S SELL FAT SHEEP AND BEASTS. [API, 



March, and if kept, ready in April not only 

 for sheep, bat for horses, cows, or any other 

 stock. 



SHEEP IN ROUEN. 



But before all the preceding dependencies, may be 

 reckoned kept after-grass on dry meadows and 

 pastures. If a field of this rouen be seen at 

 any distance, it appears most unpromising, being 

 of the colour of very bad hay ; but enter it, 

 and turn aside this covering with your hands, 

 and the young green growth is found five or six 

 inches high, nursed up by the shelter and warmth 

 of the autumnal growth. I have often shewn th 

 to persons on my own farm, to their great surprize. 

 The sheep eat both together, and it is found to 

 agree with them remarkably, being, as it were, hay 

 and grass in the same mouthful. I do not conceive 

 that it is possible to keep a full stock of sheep so 

 cheaply in April, by any other method as by this. 

 Tolerable rouen will carry ten ewes an acre, with 

 their lambs, through this whole month. Such 

 rouen may be worth, in autumn, 10s. or l'2s. an 

 acre. In April it is worth 30s. or 40s. and if it 

 k- a backward season, a fanner that has it would 

 not be tempted to sell it for much more. 

 ; r.P IN WATER MKADS. 



The fanner who has a good breadth of these, 

 may 1 absolutely on them. He wants no- 



thing el>e for sh< j <'p and lambs. 



LL FAT SHEEP A \STS. 



Markets fur beef and mutton are usually as high 

 towards the end oi April, as at any other moment 







