Practical Agriculture. 
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}irsh suffer is the necessity for sending away their lambs long- 
c tances up the country in winter, the period extending to thirty 
veks, from September to the beginning of April ; the price paid 
h.ng commonly 5/. or 6/. per score. As the young animals are 
trn under other care than that of the owner, great numbers 
Otegs return to the Marsh in spring in a very low condition, 
aJ therefore not well fitted for the rich grass. 
iWhen the turniped lambs return into the Marsh, they are put 
c the poorest land or on such fields as the grazier thinks wants 
' provement by hard stocking. Here they remain until 
, ust, distributed, or rather concentrated, at the rate of from 
to twelve sheep per acre, according to the powers of the 
rent fields. The wether-tegs are removed in the autumn 
t the fatting, and the ewe-tegs to the breeding-grounds, 
a ong the two and three-year-old ewes. The wethers remain 
u;il July or August following, when, as they become fat, they 
a drawn out and sold to the butchers at the Marsh markets, 
I are sent to Smithfield. The old ewes, called " barrens," 
a put to fattening as soon as their milk is dried after their 
t rd lambing, on some of the best land, where they run from 
tjee to five per acre for the winter. In favourable seasons 
t se are sometimes made fat and sold in the spring soon enough 
1 the same field to take in a lot of wethers and fatten them 
1 the autumn ; but this can only be done by light stocking. 
I very growing summers, it is sometimes necessary to put 
)mg beasts on the grass to prevent its "running away" from 
t" sheep. 
Viddlesex, with about two-thirds of its area in meadow. Soils of 
n inly in the north, on the London clay, and its arable and '^'''l'^'^*^^- 
nrket-garden lands chiefly on loam or brick-earth, is to a 
hre extent a county of meadow-farming, — not only farms, but 
p ks and meadows supplying the London market with hay. The 
p ducti^-e powers of the soil are maintained with applications 
'I lung from the London stables and dairies. The live stock are 
ted to horses, and to a few cattle and sheep grazing the 
^ ond or after-crop. A usual rotation is wheat (generally Rotation of 
Ciddam white, varied with Golden Drop red, and other sorts) ; '^'"l"' 
o one-third of the arable, one-third under barley and oats, and 
o.-'-third in beans and peas, clover and roots ; while on the 
u^nor and gravelly soils, a fallow crop is followed by one or 
^ > corn-crops. A portion of the straw is sold to jobbers with 
irn of manure. Within a few miles of the London suburbs 
only the hay but a considerable proportion of the straw is 
s*t to market, the teams bringing back two loads of dung for 
"1 produce taken in. Wheat, from the value of its straw, Sale of hay, 
own as often as may be in proportion to other white corn- 
■* green longe. 
