558 OCTOBER. 



harm than good ; and it certainly is very beneficial 

 to convert it to dung. 



" I have this year, at the request of my shepherd, 

 lodged my sheep in one of the folds only, which he 

 finds large enough, and sown the other with cole- 

 seed, which, from being so well manured, is very 

 stout and fine, and which we find of infinite service 

 this yeaning time, to turn in some weak sheep that 

 have twins, till they get a little strength ; or for a 

 sheep which, having lost her own lamb, requires to 

 have another put to her. And here I will remark, 

 that we find by experience that coleseed, called 

 likewise colezvorts, forwards couples a great deal 

 faster than turnips ; winter tares, rye, or forward 

 grasses, the same ; and no farmer, I believe, who 

 consults his own interest, would confine couples to 

 turnips, if he could procure a sufficient quantity of 

 either of these other foods for them, which, how- 

 ever, in backward seasons, cannot be done ; so that 

 the great dependence for winter and spring food for 

 a flock of sheep, must be on a crop of turnips. 



" I purpose, after I have carted out the dung, about 

 Midsummer next, to sow the other fold with cole- 

 seed, and to continue changing them alternately. 



"The above fold is on a piece of land by the side 

 of my heath, so as to be easily got at from any of 

 the shiftable fields ; it is likewise very conveniently 

 situated when we are obliged to give the flock hay, 

 being near a dry warm part of the heath, where we 

 generally distribute that food ; and I have of late 

 years made it a rule, to set several small stacks or 



cocks 



