ON THE FOLDING OF SHEEP. 125 



Q. How is a half folding done ? 



A. Double space is given to the pen, that it would 

 have had for whole folding : but many farmers omit 

 the half folding, which should be done two years after 

 the whole folding ; because they would not have sheep 

 enough to twice fold all their land : in this manner, 

 they do not draw all the profit from folding, which it 

 would give. 



Q. Can these farmers find means for feeding sheep 

 enough to fold a greater extent of land ? 



A. It would be necessary to sow the lands usually 

 put to fallow, instead of leaving them to be run over 

 with the weeds, which grow on them. 



Q. Would not lands of a middling quality be ex- 

 hausted, if they were made to produce every year, 

 without giving them rest, after taking off two crops ? 



A. It is said that the grasses, which grow in fal- 

 lows, and whose roots run near, and over the surface 

 of the ground, hurt the crop of wheat, that is sown in 

 the same land, because it has horizontal roots. But 

 if the land was sown with good plants, whose roots go 

 deep into the soil, such tap rooted plants would not 

 hurt the crop of wheat in the following season : on 

 the contrary, they would prevent the running plants, 

 which come in fallow ground. In this manner, a 

 crop may be had for the feeding of sheep. 



Q. What are the tap rooted plants, which might 

 be produced on fallows, without hurting the wheat 

 harvest of the year following ? 



A. Peas, beans, haricot beans, potatoes, turnips, 

 trefoil, &c. 



