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loads of the former, and made a haulm stack in the 

 middle besides, of 40 loads more, for the sl>epherci 

 to litter with occasionally ; so that folding there a 

 great deal this winter, I expect as many, or more 

 loads of dung, than I had the first year; and which 

 being quite a new manure to the adjoining lands 

 (which I observed before, are too far from home to 

 receive any benefit from the farm -yard), I find an- 

 swers extremely well. 



"In addition to the account, let me observe, that 

 before I thought of this scheme, in bad weather the 

 sheep used always to lie on one certain sheltered 

 part of the heath, where the folding was not only 

 lost, but the grass, by being over- manured, was so 

 coarse and sour, that nothing would cat it : besides 

 this damage or loss, in a wet or severe season in 

 yeaning time, I used to lose a much greater num- 

 ber of both sheep and lambs, for want of such dry 

 warm lodging, than I fyave done since : this dif- 

 ference only, my shepherd estimates at not less than 

 3O lambs in a year, besides sheep, which, in the 

 time I have been in business, amounts to more 

 lambs than I in general rear in one year ; therefore 

 I have to regret that the thought did not come 

 across me at my first entering into business, as, 

 counting every circumstance, I am of opinion it is 

 at least 301. or 40l. a year advantage to me. 



" I cannot help observing how applicable this prac- 

 tice is to a Norfolk farm, where the stubble is gene- 

 rally ploughed in ; a method I utterly disapprove, for, 

 in dry seasons, it oftener does, on such soils, more 



harm 



