MARCH. 103 



SHEEP IN SWEDISH TURNIPS. 

 This plant should no more be left this month, 

 where it grew, than common turnips, for as the 

 shoots for seed spring, they lay fresh hold of the 

 earth, and exhaust it considerably* Such portion of 

 the crop, therefore, as was not consumed in Fe- 

 bruary, should be so early in March ; but when the 

 weather is mild the last week of February, they 

 should then be removed to a grass field, for feeding. 

 If, however, the land where they grew be dry, it 

 is of such advantage to eat them on the spot, that 

 another method may be pursued, which is a very 

 good one, and that is, to draw them with one hand, 

 and by giving them a chop with a knife by the other, 

 to strike off the tap-roots, and drop them on the 

 surface of the land. In this way, they will draw 

 the soil infinitely less than when left undisturbed, 

 and women do the work easily. Thus treated, 

 the young white fibres are broken in drawing, 

 which checks them, and though fresh shoots will 

 push out from the part of the root in contact with 

 the earth, still they will take some time, and be 

 weakly. 



COWS, & c . 



Throughout this month the cows, lean and young 

 cattle, should be kept close to the farm-yards, and 

 on no account allowed to wander over any of the 

 fields. If they even steal into a grass field, and it be 

 a forward spring, so that they get a mouthful or 

 two of grass, it will be a prejudice to them ; for 



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