Pastoral Husbandry. 
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ni desired to be kept for the ensuing year are drawn out soon 
air weaning, and supplied with better keep than the store flock, 
w ch it is not desirable to force at this period. The seeds are 
hivily stocked with store sheep, the lambs and fatting sheep 
b«ig folded on the vetches, rape, or cabbage, with a little cake. 
Vhere rams are reared for sale, a special effort is made to 
^ their growth, and cake or peas are given more freely. 
here is some difference of opinion about the advantages of Advantages 
th close-folding of sheep over the open-field system. Most of ^^^^^"1^'^'"° 
th best managers of light-land arable farms, however, adopt the 
pli of small folds frequently changed. It involves more labour 
ai attention, but there is less waste of food, and the land is 
me equally manured, and the sheep are more under the control 
ofie shepherd when attention is required from any cause. It 
is ot, however, commonly adopted for store sheep when on the 
I'l er, grass, or stubbles, or so generally in heavy land and 
:i ing districts. 
abbages are much grown by some large sheep-farmers, some 
oln early ripening kind being planted in the autumn for con- 
su ption in the following May or June, and drumhead cabbages 
bfig planted in May for autumn consumption. 
he hundredfold cabbage has been much lauded as suitable for Consumption 
sh'p, but, with its long stalk and wide open- branching leaves, ':f ^'""'^ 
it 1 not equal in quality, nor can it produce as much weight * 
p( acre as a good crop of solid-hearted drumhead cabbage. 
he feeding hoggs (unshorn sheep) are folded on cabbage, or 
w te turnips, in the autumn, followed by swedes, either all or 
p; of the roots being often cut into fingers or slices, and a 
liie clover-hay or chopped straw, and J lb. to 1 lb. of cake or 
cci daily being given, the quantity being increased as the 
' ning process approaches completion. 
he heavier woolled breeds of sheep are often shorn just before 
gcig to the butcher, having been tub-washed 10 or 14 days 
priously. The general weight of fat tegs of the larger im- 
pred .breeds, from 12 to 14 months old, which have been well 
ke; from birth, is from 8 to 12 stone of 8 lbs. dead weight. 
Fm 10(/. to Is. per lb. in the wool, or 8c/. to 10c?. bare shorn, 
ha; been common prices in the early spring for some years; 
'nuding the value of the wool, such sheep therefore realise 
1 3Z. to 4Z. 10s. each. 
n many of the best managed farms all roots not required 
onsumption early in the winter are pulled, thrown in heaps, 
covered with soil in November and December, and are then 
n out daily in the folds as required. There is a special 
iwlmtage in this system in frosty weather, when sheep cannot 
wi eat frozen roots. Swedes, though capable of standing hard 
