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' d their determination relative t ПЕ come on?during the?transition state from Grass the lam Tae > pept t time for bringing the lambs 
the countenance to be eda to this Company. If Turnips, and before they are БАГУ, bed accustomed ia this uid most seasons to be from айт 
1 latter, damage may be done y 20th March. ^u the middle of April, butif you 
manifest great supineness, it is m than probable| will never recover. А little ЛЫ, therefore, for |! y y 
that this MS di or aninga steam coltivation will be | Turnips at that wor is n be stowed. chance of making them better; 
thrown a edy farmer be again driven| In putting them the field I con- but 8 in n саве it it wid be well to see that you have а 
to елй "ith. his difficulties as heretofore. О. F, | sider it better to 2 d yos de egrees than Stock of stored Turnips or Mangel. The ewes, 
upon them all at ве tlat d is to вау, и them оп if i in good арса кы be c lipped bout the first 
for three or four hours daily a Я hoggs during the latter part of 
SHEEP FARMING ON 200 ACRES OF ARABLE|them off to a Grass field, pst h | May, or sooner, gebe: to weather rin condition. 
LAND IN we cei inre day for a ла ог three: weeks ШЕ od goi чау The lambs may be weaned about the end of July, and 
E farm is of 200 acres, farmed oni xs бує" | bit with them, and en allowing when weaned must be put on good Grass or Clover 
rotation, а breeding stock of 1 з kept Ж оп altogether, although with the Cholo " foggage, and in either case it is better that no sheep 
for me усе of supplying the Н with|a Grass field to run back upon, if they wish 10, | һауе grazed it for at least ten days beforehand. 
milk, апа rea calves to be sold as yearlings, ап and|and if convenient. І think ithis more judieious| ^ Having given this necessarily short outline of merel; 
a larger idi: et cattle can be kept dui ing winter, than keeping them in close til they learn to eat|one branch of sheep farming on arable land in thi 
these cattle to be fed on the Turnips which can be | Turnips from sheer hunger; but, indeed, if lambs | county, I shall now proceed to do, or suppose—whicl 
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spared from the sheep, assisted "|have been on Turnips with their mothers, it is little | is much easier than to do in —namely, sum up 
viget other feedin; Lm py few tomar dE they ЫШ as they take to them at once— | e: probable money proceeds out of the 120 ewes 
For ihe last twenty-five years I have practised sheep | the effect of early : tuition. The lambs should get a as I have very ago and imperfectly 
farming in jthis county, andjduring that time have | fresh bit daily, but in giving them this it в Tos never | detailed, but premising even this result idis d not 
made repeated trials of various breeds of sheep, | p ets — the iiie ^i very SN e suni o | atten looked for without considerable uch 
ut have come to the rofit- up, à e fros гой t the lea tl ttention and judgment, ait Pagi that ад 200 
able for this district are what is called the half and bae ay 9 of land must ре and, and in very 
three-parts-bred sheep—that is, the first cross between | this food i in n this state on an at CHER pet in A Tum ш 
the Cheviot, ewe and d the Leicester tup for the half- Grass; witho " all "these, and оңойу. ЕШ 
bred, d again by the Leicester tup Tampe on the field put up in fresh weather. “з besides, the result may not be looked for, 
for the three-parts-bred sheep. I have tried the pure | not mean that the lambs should b altho the other hand, it is quite possible, by 
onn the pure Cheviot,and pure Southdown, a of Turnips, but w with power to cm back upon P | eh eme good m managemen nt, „to excee ed it. I shall 
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the half-bred d ambs, or rather I ought to say hoggs, will do very 100 bogge in Ара ела д ч p" б : 
" € the most money-—producing dte е "at well in this way till about the middle of January, | Fool of 120 dures, ТО неде, qunm atós 6d. 5717 0 
mutton - wool as-they do, and at the same time'a when, if they are forward in condition, you must begin il 
€ ly hardy and docile animal. T keeping | 0 slice, and keep slicing till they go to grass about £32 9 0 
the stock of = ewes, r м been in ee the end of April. is has been my general practice, kt from RES educ zr pine f 
habit of buying either halfbre mers or lambs| but I have varied it according to circumstances, an T pensa. rin wer 
from breeders in this clit: vii mel from the|have given them 4 lb. or ор АК апа 4 lb. of Locust Expense of "bathing 278 8 sheep, шї 1 
Cheviot ewe. M Leicester tup, or have got first-clase| Beans, bruised and mixed, lb, oilcake and | Expense of shepherd - ч 4718 9 
half- e immers from the county of Caithness, | Druised Oats daily, АЕ in oW field d in house- т 
where, I think, they will be found better oes for|feeding, or in sheds with o орет yards, and have sold £274 10 8 
this vor than those bred here. Тһе Caithness | Шеш, after tis D eatment, quite fat before they were| Mr, Perrie, Miltonduff, asked what would be the value of 
sheep are lengthier ре stronger, and al r serve | twelve ions old, at from 38s. 6d. to 45s. I have | that land. 
ounteraet that tenden used she. ead of cattle for iX manure in| Mr. GrpDprs said 40s, an acre at current rates—though he 
body, size of animal, and closeness of wool which the yards, a u caunot t do 2906 мое. pe- in| Мү. Рекоовом, East Grange, corroborated what Mr. Geddes 
light land of this county produces afterfa few years. арг feeding but they ;require in оой | had said, but would go further. . Assuming а stock of 12 
The Caithness |breeders, from their proximity to the deal am "rre and in x redi наг ewes, he saw his way to profit much earlier vod Mr. Geddes 
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жу? ге ret s ewes, and from the stronger y. i Et 98 тода & €— than the general habit is. He assume 
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their power t to o produce A biesor Bait. Fbred s Оа n а farm oí 200 acres farmed ona five-course shift, ая рс н, lambs to the fat makai ШТ y the present 
m T t y be те} n there will be 80 s first and second year's Grass, feline уоп have for railway communie точ еа 
ght at AA Hor all your fat lambs sent aw iy "iy the end ot June. You 
ап average of from 30s. to: 85з., Win pos n months and 40 acres Tarn therefore it is nec г Д а ud reta your ewes clipped and Ас them fat by the month 
old, « or once clipped. with this limited t of keep, to consider how f August, thereby profiting by lamb, wool, m nd ewe Within a 
Та [the note of my calculations given аб 
this paper, I have not RoN any notice of the ; 
purchase-price of these gimmers, е inoney 
realised for our draughts wil equal that Lm for our 
era m ME Рене ГА м GEDDES, of 
iston, a Reus x the Morayshire 
them to equalit; ore disposal. Farmers' Club, pese — og b the Duke of 
therefore, pe or ОШ ЕВ be for the ewes (130). wl uud .] 
heir lambs, at the pes of three to the acre, 40 acres, 
Or OggS а peracre, say 10 acres— 
гені а 30 acres to ve for hay— DE d tlie cows and Home Corresponden 
calves and the six or seven farm hors Dirty Cattle Trucks —With e: to x filthy 
of TE om and p ie to-follow. tl of г ы cattle, sheep and 
produe "fts st; Du CROWE КЕЯ probablo oa I I shall wy de treat ot he owes. I ers au pig trucks, | let me Lit cies dud uneostly way o! 
hes i ai produco at tho peu high rates for wo го and |6 us E mM nr percha rose ой jet attached 
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off annuall one-third me the new 
entry. У, ated formerly, I have taken a 205. aore 
farm LI PM LU this I shall place 
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É бү em each year; and Бае ing done во and replaced | to а 6-inch fi pump 
ке ; ot | them Tib ses ог16 m obs о de T oe me id еса cleanse a truck in two e MEE minut 
io well-managed ege at ey are Pae y pn to the ewe | speak practically in tbis matter, for my own jet workec 
mix mew УЕ E = NE about n flock, you will give them ver a bare Gra za by steam is of a thousand а gc ipee г 
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C. pping cleansed. Merely wes it hastily aeross a hard 
а loci dita er А termed а а J|when the keep ought to be- increased, and if a bit of | gravel walk = cut a furrow in it, а I could when 
poems for time will not sn of m o = second. fo oggage, ог good seeds, can be had abou! t the fed 350 pig gs r beasts, p them all clean in 10 
to detail. I y KOTE 079 time the € is put to, you are pretty f T е; 50 feet. Опе of our 
: в are proverbially persev ering |steam . fire-engines giv exact illustration 
d iid а » а s following price "ix 5 іп ob their livelihood, and they will pick the | the operation. I describe. "Кайта ay Companies have 
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156 lambs at 205. аты 200 Grass fields about to be ken and therefore, |T The һе alth. of our stock is of vast importance, and it 
Two Leicester tups at 51... = -: EL instead of costing уе for "Шер, are really | becomes a duty due to the — In fact, legally, I 
benefiting the land than otherwise; my impression is apprehend that if it could be shown that our animals 
| that there will be sufficient Grass on hs farm to | became diseased by railway e we could not. fail 
| Having now got the Дос on, the fest аш them on till about the end of January, before | {о recover yc mages. Тһе jet Hines answer equally for 
i i stea ock. J. J. Mechi, 
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| їпд, at 124. each. Tiptree, Kelvedon, Nov. 23. 
dips I have used are Randen's and Biggs’, and I hav Condition of Farm Labourers. —In these days of 
. found the one equally efücacious as the other i : m 
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Asa rule, арго сле never bo short of meat, 
Should always E a on агыр ipo t the га 
October, and if upon Rapes and early 
Mr eo diti ibo bett? but this is a matter for the 
farmer to judge of, although under any circumstances 
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Mind at si And hero la; iram T pes cud $ not 
urnips I prefer laying them on t— dared 5. spreading the manure st an 
of TAL of Globes, ый аба on them till | Swedish the шоп t | са нс К. 
yellows till the end of pen served tenant farmer i 
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January, followed by Swedes. I have found it|cannot account for, unless it be the a mard lor 53 years, and that 
desirable to change the kind of Turnips, At condition of the"ewe, that the Swede is about as safe | had the management for 19 years of E. 
do not consume many т à time | аз any other "After the Turnips are done, you в estate of 1300 acres when a non- 
еу gain condition fast, and get well bad | must not rre enfe in Grass, and йен Ома! t tenant. Му father acted in the capacity of а 
weather x November, and more part y in|possible trying to produce the largest flow of mi er's foreman or steward from 1821 till 1855, 
possible from them, for that is. what really makes 
