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FATTING BEASTS. 



SEPT. 



must be transferred to the breeding systems, and 

 there well considered before they are adopted. 

 CRONES. 



It is a common system in many inclosed dis- 

 tricts, to buy old crones in September, to put the 

 ram to them in October, and to sell the lambs as 

 they become fat for the butcher, and then to fatten 

 the mothers, clearing within or about a year from 

 the time of buying. This system is well enough 

 where fences are very secure, and food very plenti- 

 ful ; but in general it is inferior to wether lambs. 



In buying any sort of sheep that are to be win- 

 tered on turnips, the young farmer should not cal- 

 culate on more than ten to an acre of very good 

 turnips : and, in providing stock for fattening, the 

 best acres must not be expected to fatten more than 

 seven or eight ; and middling crops not more than 

 five or six ; due provision being made beside for 

 taking the stock when turnips are done. 



FATTING BEASTS. 

 You must now be very attentive to the state of 

 your fatting beasts, and the remainder of their 

 food ; see, therefore, that the cattle do not stop 

 for want. A beast that is nearly fat must have 

 plenty ; he is nice, and if he is at all curtailed in 

 his pasture, will fall off. It is excellent manage- 

 ment to have August-sown cabbages now ready for 

 the fat beasts, and to carry them on to Christmas : 

 i declines after this month ; and if rouen is 

 freely turned into in September, twenty to one but 



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