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the end of tlie year for others to fatten, or, with Welsh beasts, to 
be transferred to the fattening or dairy parts of tlie farm as others 
are drafted off ; but I consider that it is most profitable to have 
some of each description so as to meet all markets. 
On this kind of land it is much safer not to keep a breeding- 
flock of sheep, but to have one-shear wethers for wintering on 
the grass-land, about one to the acre, wliicli, with the assistance 
of a little corn or cake, will be fat by shexr-day ; besides these, 
tegs should be bought in the spring to consume the vetches on 
the arable land, and then be drafted on to the grass-land as the 
then two-shear sheep are sold to the butcher. The farmer is 
thus able not only to give the sheep a change of food, which is 
a great advantage in itself, but, by keeping a large number on his 
arable land, to manure an additional field at a very trifling 
expense, whilst he sells two lots of animals off the land in the 
course of the year. ' 
A farmer then entering at Lady-day on 70 acres of pasture- 
land of the quality above described, exclusive of that reserved 
for mowing, will require the following quantity of live-stock : — 
For the first field of 10 acres of fattening land : — £. s. d. 
8 Welsh cows or heifers, at UZ. each .. .. £72 0 0 
10 shearhog sheep, at 21. 10s 25 0 0 
97 0 0 
For the second field of 10 acres of fattening land : — 
The same description of stock 97 0 0 
For the t^vo fields of 10 acres each for dairying, which will he 
either grazed together or alternately : — 
15 Welsh cows, costing in-calf or with their calves, lOil. each 150 0 0 
For the first field of 10 acres of store land : — 
7 Welsh cows or heifers, at 8? £50 0 0 
15 shearhog sheep, at 21. 10s. 37 10 0- 
93 10 0 
For the second field of 10 acres of store land : — 
The same description of stock 93 10 0 
For the third field of 10 acres of store laud : — 
G shorthorn steers, at 9Z. 54 0 0 
15 shearhog sheep, at 21. 10s 37 10 0 
91 10 0 
He ought also to have iwo breeding sows, say at 5Z. each, and 
two reaving pigs for the winter's feeding, say 25s. each, to con- 
sume the skim-milk, &c.* .. .. 12 10 0 
He will also require sheep for folding on ths vetches grown upon 
the arable land. Supposing him to have a good average crop 
on 10 acres, and to draft the sheep on to his pasture-land as 
the two-shear sheep are sold off ; he may start with 14 to the 
acre for 6 acres, or 84 at 2/ 168 0 0 
(Thus leaving 4 acres for soiling his plough-horses in the yards.) 
Carried forward 803 0 0 
* These were designed for home consumption.'^ 
