2/2 FOLDING SHEEP. [MAY* 



night in a place, and the fold three square yards 

 per sheep ; instead of which it should be two 

 nights, and only two square yards, or hut one yard. 

 In a word, the land should be quite black, if ara- 

 ble ; and with a pretty good covering, if grass. 

 The proper arable lands to fold this month are the 

 cabbage and turnip fallows : those crops will be 

 sown and planted in June, consequently will reap 

 the benefit of the manure dire&ly. All this on 

 the supposition that the openness or other circum- 

 stances of the farm demand folding. 



When I first began to entertain doubts of the 

 propriety of folding sheep on any farms in which 

 they can be kept to certain fields in the night, 

 without that practice, I desired earnestly to try 

 some experiments that should give more insight to 

 the question than it was possible for re. do ; 



but to of Feel this comparatively was very diftlv 

 as the trial I wished for was such as should carry 

 some positive conviclion with it. I have not been 

 able to ^(Fecl this ; but from several trials, I am well 

 persuaded that it would have been impossible for 

 me to have kept, on the same land, nearly such a 

 stock as I have done in one parcel for folding. I 

 do not roneeive that my fields would have carried 

 three-fourths so managed. I "our drivings in a d;iy 

 make them trample much food, disquiet the s! 

 and transfers the choice of their hours of feeding 

 and rest from themselves to the shepherd and his 

 boy : while lambs are young they are injured by 

 this, and the ewes arc liable to be hurried and 



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