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rain, should be sown the end of February or begin- 

 ning of March. 



SHUT UP ROUEN. 



There is scarcely a more important object in the 

 range of common fanning management, than that of 

 converting rouen, after-grass, after-math, whatever 

 it may be called, to the greatest profit. If it be 

 consumed in the general manner, by feeding soon 

 after the fields are cleared pf hay, or in the autumn, 

 the value is small, rarely amounting to more (ex- 

 cept in watered meadows') than from 7s. 6d. to 15s. 

 an acre; and the reason of this low value is, that 

 food is usually plentiful at this season ; but kept 

 for ewes and lambs, and other stock, in the very 

 depth of the winter, and in spring, when food is 

 scarce, and if turnips fail, greatly so, it is of such 

 a value, that whoever once makes the trial of it 

 will never fail to value it highly. By all means let 

 the young farmer make as large a reserve as he can 

 possibly spare, for when his neighbours in spring 

 are much distressed for want of food, and perhaps 

 hundreds of sheep and lambs dying around him, 

 his will be well fed, and himself, in this respect, 

 on velvet. 



