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that if sTieep (whatever the breed) are driven by foul wea- 

 ther to a hedge, there is the proper place for them, and 

 not by penning, left t* abide the beating of the storm. 



Mr. H. Blythe, of Burnham, sometimes folds, but 

 never from choice, but solely by reason of the openness of 

 his farm ; nor does he approve the praclice. And he ex- 

 plained a point, in his manuring for wheat, which comes 

 home to the question : — he never sows tempered land with 

 wheat, without either oil-cake or muck, except on pieces 

 from which the sheep VJcre not folded while feeding the 

 layers. 



Mr. DuRSGATE remarks, that folded sheep certainlv 

 demand more food than those which are not folded; a 

 quarter of a ton of rape-cake is equal to the fold ; and the 

 flock, without any doubt, suffers more than that value by- 

 folding. In short, folding is to gain one shilling in manure, 

 by the loss of two in flesh. 



Mr. GoDDisoN folds Lord Cholmondeley*s flock 

 of Norfolk and South Downs: and Mr. BECK,of Massing- 

 ham, who has 35 score of South Downs, folds. 



Mr. Beck, of Riseing, does not fold ; and he is vqtv 

 certain that if he did told, he could not keep any thing 

 like the number of his present flock. 



As I rode across a layer of 40 or 50 acres, on Mr. 

 Overman's farm, I observed a great difference in the 

 verdure, to a line across it, the appearance of one side of 

 that line being so much superior to tlie other; and on my 

 remarking it, I was informed that it was an accidental ex- 

 periment, which was well worth attention : there was no 

 other difference in management, to make one part of that 

 layer better than another, except the sheep that fed it be- 

 ing from one part of it folded on another arable field 

 during the summer ; but from the other part they wx-rc 

 not folded at all, but left in the layer night and day. Tlic 



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