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"■ breeding ewes in the spring ; that half 

 " an acre of grass at that season is ca- 

 *' pable of supporting 1000 sheep for a 

 " clay." 



In these instances, the dairyman will 

 see a variety of enticements hung out for 

 the sheep-farmer, but nothing peculiarly 

 attractive to himself. But I can assure 

 the daiiy-farmer, from m hat I have seen 

 again and again, that no cultivator of 

 land is more highly favoured by this prac- 

 tice than he himself may be. Indeed, 

 every man who keeps live stock and grass- 

 eating stock, oudit to have a floated mea- 

 dow : and, as one of my principal in- 

 ducements to write, was the hope that my 

 book would find its way into Ireland and 

 into America, I beg permission to inform 

 the occupier^ of land in both these coun- 



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