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Turnips will give it to fheep, as likewife will 

 rape or colej fo will eddifh, young clover, or 

 any kind of grafs where rich manure has re- 

 cently been laid on the land. 



I had twelve acres of clover, with one hun- 

 dred ewes and lambs upon it. I intended to 

 fow the field with turnips -, but, the weather 

 being dry, I could not plough it. In order to 

 be ready againft wet weather came, I had the 

 manure carried on the land. A. twenty-four 

 hours' rain fell ; and the next day three ewe$ 

 were dead with the red- water, though both 

 ewes and Jambs had been conftantly there for 

 fome weeks without a fingle accident* It may 

 be necefTary to obferve that the manure was 

 taken out of the fold-yard, and confifted chief- 

 ly of rich horfe-dung, cow-dung, pig-dung, &c. 

 It was laid in heaps, fo that, when the rain 

 came, the furrows ran with a black-coloured wa- 

 ter, the juices of the manure. Since this acci- 

 dent I have heard and known of many fimilar, 

 and from the fame caufe. I caution the farmer 

 againd putting fheep upon land newly manu- 

 red, especially if with frefh dung: it makes 

 the plants to be over fucculent for the animals* 



bowels. 



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