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haps, above once in a month ; and though your 

 fhepherd be a careful fellow, the flock will 

 be diminifhed by difafters which they would 

 not have been liable to under the eye of the 

 matter. By keeping the fheep at home, in the 

 manner before defcribed, they will tread the 

 ground regularly, and confiderably enrich the 

 farm by depofiting their manure where it ought 

 to be ; and, on the loweft calculation, three 

 flieep may be kept this way to two by the old 

 method — perhaps even double the number : 

 and by obferving the regularity recommended 

 above, they will fatten much fooner than by 

 the old fyfterm 



It is well underftood in feeding cattle, horfes, 

 pigs, &c. that if you lay a redundancy of food 

 before them, they will not, in many inftances, 

 feed fo well: they eat juft fufficient to fatisfy 

 nature, and wafte the reft. 



If the fheep were driven into ftraw-folds, they 

 might breakfaft on draw, which would caufe 

 them to retain the turnips longer in their flo- 

 machs, and thus to fatten fooner. Meanwhile 

 the fhepherd and boy might be moving the fold 

 a row farther^ or, if found more convenient, 

 they might move the fheep early in the evening 



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