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in a green state, which greatly benefits it, as the plant is 
leguminous ; but it is generally found too valuable for this 
purpose. 
At first sheep are not partial to lupins, but as soon as they 
acquire a taste for them caution must be used that they do not 
over-eat themselves, this feed being of an astringent nature, 
and inclined to cause sheep to become what Norfolk shepherds 
call “dizzy.” Light land, cultivated with lupins, gives double 
benefit to the farmer, first by reason of the crop he obtains, 
secondly by the beneficial effect which it brings to his 
land, more especially after sheep have been folded on it, 
and when they have at the same time been fed with cake or 
corn. 
Lupin seed is somewhat similar in appearance to small peas 
squeezed out of shape, and freckled all over with French grey 
spots. In taste they are so bitter that it is surprising any 
animals eat them at all. A superfluity of the seed is seldom 
seen on any market. 
Mr. Edward Mornement, of Roudham Hall, near Thet- 
ford, writes us the following, which we think worthy of 
production :— 
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‘*Your remarks on lupins need no observatihn from me, only 
as you say care must be used in feeding with them when they 
begin to ripen, because if sheep get a taste for them they will 
eat them too greedily, which occasions a sort of drunkenness, 
and flies to their head, and I have known them unable to 
stand for half a day afterwards. I mostly grow some, and shall 
put in some twenty acres next April, or early in May, asin a 
dry summer they are valuable in August or September. I 
once had a lot of seed that I could not consume, and fatted 
some shearlings on the meadows, and they grazed very fast on 
them the following summer.” 
