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In this cafe, the headlands and fidclands 

 being cleared, the area is drawn and carried 

 off, warp for warp ; leaving the piece in ftripes, 

 about ten paces wide. 



The firft drawing is expended on the bul- 

 locks in one or other of the ways already de- 

 fcribed ; while the remaining flripes are draw^n 

 and fcattered over the entire ground for Iheep. 

 By this means the principal intention of 

 drawing is obtained j namely, that of diftri- 

 buting the turneps evenly and thinly ; fo that 

 u'hile one Is eaten, another may not be foiled : 

 a principle which, it may be taken for 

 granted, is well founded ; as it is (Iriiflly and 

 invariably attended to by good farmers in ge- 

 neral. 



This advantage, however, does not appear 

 to me to be the only one obtained by drawing 

 turnep for Iheep in the fold. 



When a fiock of fheep are turned upon a 

 fiiift of {landing turneps, the firft thing they 

 do is to run over the whole ; and, then, to 

 eat fuch of the tops as they have not tram- 

 pled down in running over them. While 

 they are doing this, they (land upon the roots : 

 which, being firm in the ground, and f.at on 



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