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mark, that, if the land is dry, you may feed off 

 without waste; because the soil is so clean, that 

 there is no soiling by dirt or poaching ; and, by 

 bringing a stock of lean sheep to eat up the leav- 

 ings of the fat ones, there will not be the least 

 Joss : but this point, of lean stock following the 

 fut ones, is too much neglected by many farmers, 

 who only run over their fat sheep, and conse- 

 quently spoil a proportion of their crops. It is 

 good management, in many farmers, to have a 

 sheep-rack filled with hay always in the turnip field 

 that is fed by fatting sheep: others give them bran 

 or barley meal, oil-cake, or pollard, or malt-dust, in 

 troughs ; the dryness of which is a corrective to 

 the moisture of the turnips, and will contribute 

 well to the more speedy fattening of them. I do 

 not, however, mention these assistants as being 

 absolutely necessary ; because I know that thou- 

 sands of sheep are fatted on turnips, without any 

 such help. Another article of dry food, which 

 agrees excellently with turnips, is cut chaff: this 

 makes very good dry meat for sheep that are fatting 

 on turnips or cabbages. 



THE TEAMS. 



This is an idle month for the teams in many 

 farms; but should not be so with good husband- 

 men : for, as I have often remarked, they must be 

 constantly well fed, and employed. There are many 

 works that may be executed in this month, after 

 ploughing is finished : on light dry soils, the marl, 



chalk, 



