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Portable Fencing for Sheep. 
10 lbs. of roots each per day, from December to the end of 
February, than they would do with an unlimited quantity, 
provided they have as much dry food as they will eat. After 
February the allowance of mangolds should be increased, if the 
store will allow of this ; and by the end of March the fattening tegs 
will be fit to go, shorn, to the butcher. If they can be kept a 
month longer so much the better. I have thus bepn supposing 
the case of a clay-land farm which is assisted by a small portion 
of a lighter character. Where there is only clay there will often 
be greater difficulty ; and it may be necessary sometimes to sell 
off all or a portion of the lambs' before September, instead of 
wintering them. In that case, as the whole of the straw cannot 
properly be made into manure, it is better that jiart should be 
sold ofi, the money arising from such sale being expended, half in 
guano and half in oilcake ; the former to be applied to the wheat 
crop, the latter given to the ewes and lambs upon the seeds and 
vetches. I have conclusive proof in the field I named at the 
commencement of this letter, that farmyard manure is not essential 
to the fertility of clay-land, but that after draining and burning, 
the poorest of it may be maintained in productive condition, and 
grow wheat every other year by the aid of sheep, oilcake, and 
guano. 
Believe me, dear Sir, faithfully yours, 
C. Randell. 
2. — Portable Fencing for Sheep. By Thomas Bowick. 
FOEFAESHIEE SYSTEM. 
In the vale of Strathmore it is not so customary as with us in 
Warwickshire for every farmer to keep a flock of his own, all the 
year round. There are several reasons for this. Dry stone walls, 
although a sufficient fence for horses or cattle, do not form a safe 
enclosure for the Blackfaced sheep, which is the prevailing 
breed. Hedges are not abundant, and, from the increasing 
scarcity of larch-trees, " paling " is a very costly article. Again, 
the great range of the Grampians — well styled the Alps of Scot- 
land — stretching from Dumbarton on the west coast, to Stone- 
haven on the German Ocean, is a breeding district which 
furnishes many thousands of sheep ; but tlie Highland glens, 
fertile as they ofton are, and abounding in the richest natural 
grasses, do not afford enough keep to sustain their flocks more 
than eight or nine months of the year. Hence the flock-master 
requires to look out for winter grazing in the low country, and 
