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At the beginning of the throwing-feafon^ 

 while grafs is ft'ill in plenty for lean flock, it is 

 ufual to keep the fatting-cattlc conflantly 

 in the fame piece of wheat- if ubble, giving 

 them a frefli fupply of tmneps every day, or 

 every two days at fartheft. 



But the clover-ftubblcs being cleared from 

 grafs, and the flore- beads beginning to want 

 afTiftance from turneps, the fatting-cattle have 

 their " follov\-crs," — that is, rcaring-cattle : — 

 lean bullocks, cows, or llore-lhecp follow 

 them to pick up their leavings. 



In this cafe it is convenient to have three 

 «' fliifts," that is, three pieces of throwing- 

 ground, going on at the fame time : — one for 

 the head beails, one for the followers, and a 

 third empty to throw in. Two pieces, or two 

 divifions of the fame piece, are indifpenfibly 

 ncceffary. 



Sometimes a row of hurdles is run acrcfs a 

 th rowing-piece to divide the " bullocks" from 

 the " followers;" and I have known abo-y em- 

 ployed for the lame purpoie. 



Good farmers are very attentive to having 

 the turneps thrown evenly and thinly ; it being 

 a hiaxim, that while a bullock is breaking one 



turnep. 



