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The calves are reared by hand in separate boxes, formed by 
dividing a stall into 6 compartments by partitions : new milk 
is allowed for about 3 weeks. In addition to the young beasts 
already mentioned as stocking the pastures, about 80 steers are 
fed during the winter in the foldyards. These foldyards 
are very large, and they are so arranged and used that the 
cattle are moved in rotation from one to the next in order, as 
those previously occupying the lnr*,-.r are sold off. The steers 
are fed in these yards with sliced turnips and an allowance of 
7 lbs. of oilcake per day. No food is steamed or otherwise 
cooked. On the average about 80 steers are wintered in this 
manner ; and, as a rule, 20 go off at Christmas, 20 in March, 
20 in May, and 20 in June. As a large quantity of straw is 
grown, and none is sold, it becomes an object of great importance 
to convert the whole of it into manure. The practice at 
Eastburn is to leave this manure in the yards until the middle of 
July, when it is taken out and spread over the clover. On an 
adjoining farm, however, a different system is practised ; a large 
quantity of the straw is there sold to publicans and others in 
Driffield, and stable-manure is brought back to the farm. 
What manure is made in the foldyards is there carted into the 
fields in January, while still long, and made into immense 
heaps, in which form it is left until wanted for use. 
Sheep. 
The flock consists of 500 Leicester breeding ewes, descended 
from Mr. Hall's, of Scorboro. The wethers are sold fat at 
1 year old, and the ewes are kept. In addition to the per- 
manent flock it is customary to buy about 300 hoggets in the 
autumn, which are put on turnips with artificial food, and sold 
in the spring as they become ready. All the sheep are shorn 
before they are sent to market, and they are sent alive to 
Wakefield and the West Riding. Some few which generally 
remain over are sold in the autumn. 
The breeding ewes are given a small quantity of turnips on 
the grass during the day, just before lambing, and are brought 
at night into the foldyards, where they are fed, both before and 
after lambing, on chopped oats, linseed cake, and bran. They 
are lambed in the foldyards, and are afterwards taken on the 
grass, where they are again given a few turnips. The lambing 
season commences early in March and lasts about five weeks. 
Tlie lambs are generally weaned about the middle of July upon 
grass freed from the ewes, getting a supply of linseed cake and 
bran, — the ewes being at this time on the seeds. 
The sheep are usually put on rape in the early part of 
