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Farm Hejwrts. 
Instead of the ordinary hurdle the sheep-pens are enclosed with 
iron "lifts" which run on two pairs of wheels. They are each 
12 feet long, 3 feet 6 inches from the ground to the top rail, and 
cost about a sovereign ; but their durability is proportionate to 
their cost, as ihey last more than twenty years. The great gain 
in using them is that there is no need to drive hurdles or 
anything else into the ground, when it is hard and dry in 
summer, thus effecting a considerable saving in labour. 
When the sheep are feeding-off turnips in winter, four-inch- 
square mesh-nets are used before and behind them, the iron lifts 
being used to divide them into lots of about 300 each. Each 
of such lots is attended by a strong lad at about 8s. per week, 
a boy at 55., and another boy at 4s., who top, tail, and cut the 
turnips, feed the sheep, move the nets, hurdles, and cribs, and 
do anything else that may be required for the 300 sheep. These 
cost, therefore, for attendance a little more than Is. per score 
per week. 
When the ewes and lambs are together these arrangements are 
supplemented by a wooden " lift-hurdle " or lamb-gate, which 
enables the lambs to run out of the pens and get the best of the 
feed on the next day's fold before the ewes are put on it, as well 
as their rations of cake and lentils. This lift-hurdle is about 
7 feet long, and the usual height ; it is divided into two portions 
by a horizontal bar midway between the ground and the top 
rail, and the lower half is subdivided by rolling upright bars 
10 inches apart, just wide enough to allow the lambs to get 
through. The upper half has a sufficient number of uprights to 
give the whole the requisite strength. 
Horses. 
From 2G to 28 horses, of the Norfolk and Suffolk breeds, are 
kept to work 800 acres of tillage, being considerably more than 
three horses to every 100 acres of arable land. 
Fourteen of these horses are kept in boxes ; the remainder are 
fed in stalls and turned into the horse-yards at night. From the 
beginning of harvest through the winter they get a peck and a 
quarter of crushed oats and a quarter of a peck of crushed beans ; 
also one bushel of hay, and wheat- or barley-straw, both cut into 
chaff. This food is continued until the middle of May; they 
then get as much tares and winter oats as they can eat, leaving 
off the corn and chaff after they have had green food about a 
week. In this way they are kept as long as the tares last, 
generally until the middle of July, when the cow-grass is mown, 
after which they are turned into the pastures and remain there 
until harvest begins, when corn and chaff are given to them, and 
their winter treatment recommences. 
