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ronnd them, with 60 loads or upwards of wheat 

 stubble, and littered the bottom with about 3O loads 

 more, for my flock to lodge in, in wet or hard 

 frosty weather, when the field -fold was unfit to be 

 laul in, or could not be removed from place to 

 place, an account of such frosts, or deep snows. 



** I had very good reason to be pleased with the 



result, for what with the haulm the fold was first 



littered with, and many loads of short straw carried 



out of the rack or farm -yards, at different times in 



the winter, that had first been picked over by great 



cattle, who had too great a plenty to tread it pro- 



pevly to dung, I raised, including about three inches 



of earth at the bottom of the fold, 4Q3 loads of ma- 



nure the first year: valuing this at Is. per load 



only, it comes to 24l. 13s.; from which I can de- 



duct nothing for carriage of straw, &c. because the 



lands about the fold lying at too great a distance to 



receive any benefit from the home dung, the ma- 



nure made there, is of more extra value than the 



carriage of such straw or haulm amounts to: this 



circumstance, with the advantage I found in my 



flock, induced me to continue the practice. The 



next year turning out more open and dry, and the 



frosts of no long duration, the sheep lodging less in 



the standing fold, and it being likewise a scarce year 



uhh me for straw, I did not make more than half 



that quantity; but haying last autumn ^(,178?) a 



large quantity of coleseed straw, and rye ami wheat 



stubble, I repaired the haulm ricks with ()0 load,s of 



the latter, a;id littered the bottom with about 3D 



loads 



