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character and their capacity, owing to the size 

 and strength of their horns, to break through 

 the strongest hedge and commit damage 

 in a neighbour's field. Sheep-breeding, 

 however, is not adapted to a Small Holding 

 of average type, this branch of farming 

 being usually conducted with two objects in 

 view : the production of lambs either for 

 selling fat or for running on and selling as 

 wethers, the ewe lambs being brought into 

 the flock; and the manuring of the arable 

 land by folding. Thus, on a large arable 

 farm, where it becomes impossible to provide 

 sufficient dung from the stock-yards, green 

 and fallow crops are grown in the course 

 of the rotation in order to provide food for 

 the sheep and to act as a medium for the 

 production of corn. Thus, roots and forage 

 crops frequently follow wheat. The land is 

 cleaned in the process of cultivation, and the 

 crops are consumed by the sheep, which 

 receive cake, com, and hay, and in conse- 

 quence prepare for a succeeding grain crop 

 which is followed by seeds, usually clover or 

 clover and rye-grass, which remains down one 

 or two years, as the case may be, when wheat 

 comes in again. In this way the fallow and 

 forage crops ansv/er two purposes : they 



