MAY.] CATTLE IN GRASS. 



good by raising fresh plants, than harm to those 

 which yield the seed. 



But it is not only the first year that sheep-feed- 

 ing is the best management for a new lay; it should 

 he so fed also the second year ; and if the third, so 

 much the better : there is no necessity of continu- 

 ing it longer ; but I have had some fields which 

 succeeded well in feeding four, five, and even six. 

 years : and in general it may be laid down as a rule, 

 that the more the land is sheep-fed, the more it 

 will be improved, and especially if it is ever to be 

 ploughed again for corn. But when sheep-fe-edin^; 

 iticlosures is mentioned, it is understood that the 

 sheep are not folded from such fields ; a ruinou?, 

 impoverishing, unnecessary system, of which the 

 farmers are too fond, as they are of every way of 

 robbing grass to favour corn. 



CATTLE IN GRASS. 



When cattle, whether cows, fatting beasts, or 

 young stock, arc turned out to grass, it is requisite 

 to consider the best method of feeding. There are 

 two opinions on this point diredlly contrary to each 

 other : first, it is asserted, by one set of graziers, 

 that, let the grass to be fed consist of ever so many 

 acres, that the cattle should have it all at once : if 

 it is divided into eight or ten fields, the gates of all 

 to be set open, for the stock to feed where they 

 like. Secondly, the other set advance, that large 

 fields, of fifty, eighty, or an hundred acres, should 

 be divided, that the farmer may change his stock 

 from one to the other, and give the grass fresh 



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