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fill -, and pnrt of what they pick up weeds 

 and dirt. The next day glutted with a flulh 

 of frcfh turneps. 



If turneps be eaten up clean, a bead flock 

 and followers are indifpenfably neceflary to 

 common good management. If it be rcqui- 

 fite to eat off turneps with one flock of fat 

 fheep. one-third of the crop at leaft ought, 

 in like management, to be left on the ground 

 as manure. 



The fence of the Jheep-fold is generally of 

 NET-WORK, made of fmall cord ; the fize of 

 the mefties four to fix inches ; the width or 

 height of the fence about three feet ; fup- 

 ported by flakes eight or ten feet afunder. 

 The coft fourpence to fourpence halfpenny 

 a yard. But " net-hurdles" are more com- 

 monly hired (of rope- makers) than purchafed. 

 The priccalhilling to eighteenpence a-week 

 for a hundred yards. About home, " bar- 

 hurdles" are fometimes ufed , but nets, being 

 lighter carriage, are generally ufed at a dif- 

 tance. For (beep which are hornlefs, as the 

 Wold flieep invariably are, netted folds are 

 very eligible. 



S 2 XVII. SHEEP. 



