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gradually during the winter and spring months, being sold 
either at fairs or by private contract. 
The feeding stock are kept in stalls, and given a liberal 
allowance of pulped mangolds, chaff, flour, and oil-cake. 
The store stock run in the foldyards during the winter, 
living chiefly upon chaff, with a few pulped mangolds, and 4 lbs. 
of cake or flour per day. In May they are turned out for the 
summer into the pastures. 
Sheep. 
About 400 breeding ewes are kept ; they are a cross of Cots- 
wolds and Hampshire Downs, and are put to Hampshire Down 
rams. About one-fourth are annually drafted, and the crop of 
lambs is generally in the proportion of about \\ to each breeding 
ewe. About the first or second week in September the ewes are 
put to the ram on fresh pastures, about 60 being allotted to each. 
After tupping they get very few roots for some time, but a large 
quantity of chaff, — roots in any quantity being considered highly- 
injurious at this time. 
Previous to lambing the allowance of roots is gradually 
increased, and the ewes are brought at night into the fold-yards, 
where they get hay during lambing time. As soon as possible 
the ewes and lambs are drafted away to the pastures. In the 
winter the sheep are kept entirely on the light land, and eat 
off the catch crops. These consist of two kinds, namely, (1) 
rape and turnips following (a) winter beans after half the wheat 
of the previous course, and (ft) early peas of the remaining half, 
as well as (c) the barley which follows the rape and turnips after 
the early peas of the preceding year; and (2) winter oats and 
vetches following the wheat which succeeds the rape and turnips 
after winter beans. These are fed off in succession in the order 
in which they are given. The rape and turnips on the bean stubble 
having been fed off" by the last week in November, with the assist- 
ance of about 5 lb. of corn or cake, with hay chaff the first thing 
in the morning, and a good meal of chaff and pulped swedes 
every evening, the sheep go on to the equivalent crop after peas, 
which is eaten off with a similar allowance of artificial food. 
The remaining crop of rape and turnips, after barley, is eaten off 
in succession after the last, with an increased quantity of corn or 
cake, and is generally finished by the last week in March. 
As soon as it is finished the sheep are folded on the oats and 
vetches after wheat, and the quantity of corn or cake is increased 
to about 1 lb. each per diem, and the allowance of pulped 
mangolds and chaff is similarly augmented. The home-bred 
sheep are worked off as shearlings during March and April, and 
about 500 teggs are bought in during the spring, and folded on 
