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mothers, clearing within or about a year from the 

 time of buying. This system is well enough where 

 fences are very secure, and food very plentiful ; but 

 in general it is inferior to wether Iambs. 



In buying auy sort of sheep that are to be win- 

 tered on turnips, the young farmer should not cal- 

 culate on more than ten to an acre of very good 

 turnips: and, in providing stock for fattening, the 

 best acres must not be expected to fatten more than 

 seven or eight; and middling crops not more than 

 live or six; due provision being made beside for 

 taking the stock when turnips are done. 



FATTING BEASTS. 



You must now be very attentive* to the state of 

 } T otir fatting beasts, and the remainder of their 

 food; see, therefore, that the cattle do not stop 

 for want. A beast that is nearly fat must have 

 plenty; he is nice, and if he is at all curtailed in 

 his pasture, will fall off. It is excellent manage- 

 ment to have August-sown cabbages now ready for 

 the fat beasts, and to carry them on to Christmas: 

 grass declines after this month; and if rouen is 

 freely turned into in September, twenty to one but 

 the ewes and lambs will be distressed in March and 

 April: whatever grass is now used on the farm, 

 will pay far better by sheep than by feeding at 

 present. The soil, however, must in some mea- 

 sure govern this distribution; for all lands that 

 are subject to floods, or that have a tender and 

 poaching surface, should be left quite bare before 



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