CULTIVATION OF 



rotted one half of moil fields of turnips that 

 were large. If the ground is dry, a large pit- 

 dug and covered with flraw to prevent the 

 wet and froil will keep them : a thatched 

 hovel will anfvver, or they may he made 

 into a long or round flack, hut that is not 

 fo convenient for taking them out, being 

 ib very liable to tumble down. 



THE fheep mould be fed in the fevere 

 winter weather on dry grafs fields in the 

 fold, and if the ground is (tiff where the 

 turnips grow, it would be better not to 

 feed on it in the fpring. 



IT is a great profit in hard frofts and 

 deep mows to have plenty of turnips to 

 feed with ; and what makes it dill more 

 profitable is, that moft of thofe turnips 

 that are then feeding and fattening the 

 cattle would have been rotting in the field 

 as foon as the thaw came, if they had not 

 been fecured from the froft. According- 

 to the prefent method of feeding fheep on 

 turnips, when there comes a deep fnow 



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