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by calculation of the quantity of green food which the scheme 

 of cultivation will provide each day dividing it by 25 or 

 thereabouts, as the weight in pounds which a full-grown 

 sheep will consume daily, and thus arriving at the number of 

 sheep which the farm is capable of keeping month by month. 

 If you count a calf as equal in its consumption to 2 sheep, a 

 yearling as equal to 3 or 4, a full grown beast as equal to 7 or 

 8, and a horse as equal to rather more, you can estimate 

 the number of every kind of stock which your land may 

 maintain. You will consider hay as equal to five times its 

 weight of green food. You will calculate the aftermath as 

 equal, to three-fifths of the mown crop. You will put 

 your grass at weights varying from 8 to 10 tons per annum, 

 your clover at 10 to 12 tons, your vetches at 8 or 9 tons, 

 your turnips at 12 to 20 tons, your mangels at 20 to 30 tons 

 per acre. You will put so much of your straw as you can 

 consume as equal to probably three fold its weight of green 

 food ; and grain and cake bought or grown as equal to from 

 10 to 15 times its weight of green food. With these data 

 you can calculate within the limits which the variations of 

 seasons and productiveness impose, what stock, after pro- 

 viding for your horses, you can keep in each month. And 

 having resolved upon a certain scheme of stocking you 

 must arrange your cropping so as to be sure that the supply 

 which every week will need is then forthcoming. How 

 many cows you shall keep and how many calves you shall 

 rear, and either fatten at 3 years old or dispose of as in-calf 

 heifers at a similar age : how many ewes you can keep, 

 disposing of the produce either as lambs at six months or 

 as shearlings at fourteen, or perhaps supplementing their 

 number by purchases in autumn to be fed off fat in the 

 following early summer : how many sows you shall keep, 



