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HOE PEASE. 



This crop cannot be managed so well and so 1 

 easily as beans ; if in double rows, with wider in- 

 tervals, in order for the tendrils to join and form 

 one row, leaving a better space for. hoeing, no 

 proper season should be lost in cleaning. Crops 

 dibbled close may demand a weeding. 



SHEEP. 



I suppose the spring food has lasted till the TOth 

 or 12th of May ; then they are to be turned into 

 their summer's grass, in which they are to be 

 managed according to the nature of the stock. If 

 the' flock consists of lean-stock sheep, whose profit 

 is lamb and wool, then the business throughout 

 the year, on whatever food, is to keep them in 

 good and healthy order : these flocks are proper 

 for farms on poor soils, and belonging to which are 

 extensive commons, wastes, or sheep-walks : suoh 

 tracts will only keep the sheep. 



Another management in enclosed countries is, 

 to buy ewes in August or September, to turn them 

 on to the fallows, or the poorest grass on a farm, 

 till Christmas, and then to begin to give them 

 some turnips or cabbages, keeping them in good 

 heart through their lambing, and afterwards as well 

 as possible, that the lambs may be drawn fat by the 

 butcher, soon enough to get the ewes fat and gone 

 Ipy September or October. This is a profitable 

 practice. 



A third system of conducting sheep is, tp buy 



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