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husbandry, there is no .oint that puzzles the far- 

 mers more, than providing for thei- flocks through 

 March, April, and the first week of May. It proves-" 

 the good husbandman a much as ;my other article 

 in the most extended farm. The common ma- 

 nagement is to depend on turnips and hay ; and, 

 when the former are done, to turn them into a 

 piece of rye sown on purpose, or into the crops of 

 wheat, to feed them off. These resources not 

 being proportioned to the want, they let them rim 

 over the clover and pastures of the farm ; by which 

 means the crop? of hay, and pastures for large cat- 

 tle, are greatly damaged. Bad as such a system of 

 management undoubtedly is, yet it is too often to- 

 be met with, and the bad consequences are felt so 

 strongly, that the number of sheep on such farms 

 is governed by the food in April Few farms are 

 stocked properly with sheep throughout the whole 

 year, for want of more food at thi^ season. But 

 there are some farmers, who have felt these incon- 

 veniences so strongly, that they have taken steps 

 to remedy them. They keep their turnips as long 

 as possible, so as to make their shoots an object of 

 sheep-food ; and every year they sow a piece of 

 clover and ray-grass on land in pretty good heart, 

 to be ready in the spring to take their flocks from 

 turnips, and keep them till the general turning to 

 grasses arrives. This conduct, I must observe, is 

 an improvement on the other, for it gets rid of 

 three great evils : depending on rye, which is soon 

 eaten ; feeding on wheat, which is pernicious to 



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