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number of ewes as to keep all their produce for 

 the butcher. If he is in this system, his principal 

 objedt is to consider wether lambs as fatting stock, 

 and feed them accordingly from weaning to the 

 knife. His crones the same from this period. 

 LAYING DOWN LAND TO GRASS. 



This is the best season of the whole year for this 

 very important operation, and no other admissible 

 for it on strong, wet, or heavy soils. Spring sow- 

 ings with corn may succeed, and do often, but that 

 they are hazardous I know from forty years ex- 

 perience. In all my trials I never failed with an 

 August sowing but once, and that was with crested 

 dog's-tail gathered too early by the women, know- 

 ing the intention too soon. 



Preparation. I suppose this to have been either 

 a fallow or winter tares sown very early, and mown 

 in June for soiling, which may give nearly two 

 months in the very heat of the summer for tillage: 

 such a preparation is one of the most effective for 

 cleaning land that can be ; and it may further be 

 supposed that the land had been favoured in the 

 course of crops previously to the year of laying 

 down. 



Seeds. These should be varied according to the 

 soil, as in the following table : 



Clay. 



