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wanted ; and, though it runs to seed, yet the bulb 

 will not be sticky. The green boorcole may be 

 fed off several times. It is impenetrable to frost, 

 and will make shoots in the winter. 



Another crop for feeding sheep in spring, which 

 is of particular merit, is burnet. An acre of 

 it, managed properly, will at this season yield much 

 more food than an acre of clover and ray-grass. 

 It should be four or five inches high in November, 

 and left so through the winter. Burnet has the 

 singular quality of maintaining its green leaves 

 through the winter : so that, under deep snows, 

 you find some luxuriance of vegetation. From 

 November to February the crop will gain two or 

 three inches in growth in the young leaves, and 

 ihen be ready for sheep. It will be better in 

 March, and if kept, ready in April not only for 

 sheep, but for horses, cows, or any other stock. 



SHEEP IN ROUEN. 



But before all the preceding dependencies, may 

 be reckoned kept after-grass, on dry meadows and 

 pastures. If a field of this rouen be seen at any 

 distance, it appears most unpromising, being of 

 the colour of very bad hay ; but enter it, and turn 

 aside tthis covering with your hands, and the young 

 green growth is found five or six inches high, 

 nursed up by the shelter and warmth of the au~ 

 ,tumnal growth. I have often shewn this toper- 

 sons on my own farm, to their great surprize. 

 The sheep eat both together, and it is found to 



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