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mains of the summer grass, and on the sheep-walks ; 

 but the fat stock must now be at turnips or cabbages. 

 Remember that fatting cattle, of whatever sort, should 

 have as much meat as they like ; but should, at the 

 same time, be prevented from making any waste. 

 Giving fat* sheep the turnips or cabbages is a dubious 

 point; many farmers urging strenuously the necessity 

 of saving carriage, by letting the sheep feed them oft 

 where they grow, provided the land be dry enough ; 

 but others are of a contrary opinion, and carry the 

 turnips to a grass field, where they give them to the 

 sheep as required, and without so much waste as is 

 made in the other case. Upon these systems I shall 

 remark, that, if the land is dry, you may feed o ? 

 without waste ; because the soil is so clean, that there 

 is no soiling by dirt or poaching j and, by bringing a 

 btock of lean sheep to eat up the leavings of the fai: 

 ones, there will not be the least loss : but this 

 point, of lean stock following the fat ones, is too 

 much neglected by many fanners, who only run over 

 their fat sheep, and consequently spoil a proportion 

 of their crops. It is good management, in man}' 

 farmers, to have a sheep-rack filled with hay always in 

 the turnip field that is fed by fatting sheep : others 

 give them bran or barley-rneal, oil-cake, or pollard, 

 or malt-dust, in troughs ; the dryness of which arc a 

 corrective to the moisture of the turnips, and will 

 contribute well to the more speedy fattening of them. 

 J do not, however, mention t! stunts as being 



absolutely r. - ; because I kno\v that thousands 



i \ sh< j) are fatted on turnips, without any such 

 Jielp. Another article of dry food, which agrees ex- 

 cellently 



