Advantage of very Shallovc Cultivation. 
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Sixth Year, Meadovc Grass. 
No. 6. This bein? a two-rears' lev. I feed it the whole year ; 
the earlv part of the season allowing the sheep to remain m the 
same field ; but the latter part, remo^-ing them every night as de- 
scribed in No. 5. 
Management of the Flock. 
1 will begin with the month of Augiist, when I have commenced 
feedins the turnip crop of No. 1. The flock would now consist 
of 150 stock ewes. 75 ewe and 75 wether lambs : the stock ewes 
going during the dav to the lattermath of Nos. 5 or 6, returning 
at night to So. 1, to leave extra manure and firm the land for the 
succeeding wheat crop : the lambs remaining wholly in No. 1 , 
eating com, and having their turnips cut till consumed, when the 
wheat is planted and the flock removed to the turnips or Swedes 
of No. 3. where thev remain till about the 6th of April. The 
turnip crop being now nearlv consumed, the wether tegs are sold 
to the butcher, the ewe tegs left to finish the few remaining tur- 
nips of No. 3. and the ewes and lambs removed from the pen used 
fur yeaning to the early spring feed of No. 5, now fit to receive 
them, which, fnjm not having been stocked the preceding year 
after harvest, but allowed to grow, has been protected from the 
frost, and is rendered more wholesome by the Vf ung and old 
grass being eaten together, so that the sheep do not scour. Food 
of this description at this early period of the season, upon a poor, 
thin, moorv farm, without an acre of meadow land, I find of most 
essential service, particularly for Ta\ ewes and lambs, having 
alwavs observed that, although taken from turnips or Swedes, 
sainfoin hay and a well-littered comfortable pen to lodge in at 
night, they have made a decided improvement when placed on 
this food. I would here remark, that on this day, the 24th of 
February, while moory land ^enerallv is wearing a russet withered 
appearance, this grass of No. -5 looks green and flourishing, 
and appears in no wav to have suffered from the inclemency 
of the weather. I have never been able to obtain keep of any 
other description so early that will not scour, possessing so much 
nourishment, or capable of yielding the quantity of milk, on this 
description of land. I do not allow mv sheep to have their food 
without being hurdled to them everv dav, thereby makin? it go 
farther, and keeping the flock more in the same condition 
throughout the year; and that the lambs mav go forward, have 
more liberty, and pick out the shortest and sweetest of the keep, 
I have " creepers" placed to enable them to do so. I have never 
known this grass killed by the frost, although my wheat in the 
culjoining field has ; neither have I found it possess anv evil ten- 
dency to draw the soil or deteriorate the succeeding crop. About 
