MINUTES 



JUNE 



118. 



ARABLE 

 MAN. OF 



BLOWHELD 



BULLOCK- 



SHED. 



fible intelligent farmer, at whofe houfe I flept) 

 fays, that twenty or thirty years ago, he never 

 could get flock enough for his turneps : he has 

 finifhcd forty or fifty bullocks in a year : now, 

 he does not know how to buy few enough; and 

 does not finifh more than twenty or thirty : the 

 roots do not come to any fize ; and have no 

 " tack" or proof in them. 



The Blovvfield farmers in general fat their 

 bullocks in fheds, or in bins in the yard. 



Some of their buttock-Jheds are large expen- 

 five buildings. Mr. Batchelor has a very good 

 one : it confifts of a center building, thirty- 

 fix feet long, nineteen feet wide, and about 

 eleven feet high to the eaves; with a pair of wide 

 folding-doors at each end ; and with a lean-to 

 on each fide, the whole length of the building, 

 and eleven feet wide. 



The center building is the turnep-houfe; 

 the lean-tos, fheds for the bullocks; which ftand 

 with their heads toward, or rather in, the turnep- 

 houfe; from which they are parted by a range 

 of mangers only; having the full freedom of 

 breathing in its fpacious area. By opening the 

 doors at each end, a fufficient degree of air and 

 eoolnefs may be given in the clofeft weather ; 

 while, behind, the eaves of the fheds are 



brought 



