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the autumn : they should have plenty of turnips or 

 cabbages, as fast as they lamb ; for cattle that have 

 young require as good keeping as those that are fat- 

 ting ; and if you let them have a rack of hay always 

 in the field, it will be much the better for them. 

 Draw the turnips or cabbages, and give them on a 

 dry grass field. One great advantage of cabbages 

 over turnips, is the ease of cutting them, in case of 

 the hardest frosts, when turnips cannot be had. 



In case of extreme bad weather, it will be advise - 

 able to bring your sheep under shelter. Most far- 

 mers are sensible of this, and drive them on such oc- 

 casions into their hay-stack yard, which is not a bad 

 way ; but much inferior to giving them their hay in 

 racks, in a warm yard, with sheds around it for them 

 to feed under. The use of such a yard is so great, 

 that I \vonckr they are not more common. In 

 driving snows, sleet and rain, the injury sheep take 

 in the open fields is great. Another circumstance, 

 which ought to have weight, is the raising plenty 

 of rich dang : by keeping your sheep in very bad 

 weather all day, nnd constantly of nights, in a 

 yard proportioned to their number, you fold them 

 perhaps in the most advantageous method of all 

 others ; for, if a layer of turf or marie be spread 

 over the bottom of the yard in autumn, and under all 

 the sheds, and the sheep are kept well littered with 

 straw, fern, or stubble, so as to be always perfectly 

 clean and dry, they will in the winter make a great 

 quantity of excellent manure. 



SWJNE. 



This is the geason for making the right profit by 



hogs, 



