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tlie Cambridge roller. For pasture tlie following mixtures are 
used : — At Ranby 11 lbs. of white Dutch, 3 lbs. of trefoil, and 
^ peck of perennial ryegrass ; at Morton Grange 8 lbs. of white 
Dutch, 2 lbs. of plantain, 1 lb. of alsike, 2 lbs. of parsley, and 
1 peck of dwarf ryegrass ; while at Hodsock the quantities are 
12 lbs. of white Dutch, 4 lbs. of trefoil, and from 1 to 1^ peck 
of ryegrass. 
The proportion of land sown with red clover varies from one- 
half of the shift at Ranby to one-sixth at Hodsock, Morton 
Grange showing a medium system of from one-fourth to one- 
third. As a rule, not more than one-half of the red clover is 
mown. The mixture used at Ranby is from 12 to 14 lbs. of red 
clover, and ^ peck of perennial ryegrass ; at Morton Grange it is 
8 lbs. of red clover, 2 lbs. of trefoil, and 1 peck of ryegrass ; and 
at Hodsock it is 12 lbs. of red clover, 2 lbs. of trefoil, and ^ peck 
of ryegrass. 
Sheep. 
The description of sheep generally kept In the Forest Is about 
half Leicester and half Lincoln, and the number of breeding- 
ewes kept on farms where there is little or no permanent pasture 
must depend entirely on the success with which "seeds" can he 
produced. At Ranby there are 300, from 50 to 70 being" 
gimmers, and at Morton Grange there are 350. Lambing 
begins about the end of February, and the lambs are weaned on 
clover eddishes, with cake about the end of June or beginning 
of July. Seeds are the only summer food available for the ewes 
and lambs, and these are entirely depastured by them and the she- 
hoggs required for breeding next year. In the autumn it is the 
custom to buy in hoggets for feeding during the winter, and in 
the beginning of September they begin to go on white turnips,^ 
which are given sliced with mixed (cotton and linseed) cakes, 
and sometimes maltcombs. The quantity of stock to be kept 
during the summer is always reduced to the smallest possible 
number, and generally by the middle of April or beginning of 
May no sheep except breeding ewes and she-hoggs remain on 
the farm. At Ranby, during the winter, however, as many as 
1000 sheep are kept, the usual weight of the best hoggets being 
20 lbs. per quarter, and the fleeces weighing 10 lbs each. 
Cattle. 
No breeding herd is kept at Ranby ; but between 20 and SO' 
yearlings are annually bought to graze off the seeds, and are fed 
off in stalls as two-year olds. In the autumn a sufficient number 
of stron"-er beasts are bought to consume the straw ; 8 lbs. of oil- 
