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nips and carrots are with them seldom made a principal crop, 
but are sown after the barley or rye have been reaped, the 
barley being sown in autumn. These turnips, says the writer 
in the Farmers' Series on Flemish Husbandry, are not such 
as are sown in England under the name of stubble turnips, and 
give but a poor produce during the winter and early in spring. 
They are already a good size in September and October. In fact 
their growth is rapid beyond belief by the use of liquid ma- 
nures. The beasts are all stall fed, by which there is not only a 
great saving in the quantity of food, as every farmer knows 
there is by soiling, but in this manner only could the manures 
from stock be properly collected. Forty pounds of turnips, 
twenty of potatoes, and twenty of carrots are given as the hras- 
sin to each beast daily, and fourteen acres of turnips, fourteen 
of potatoes, and seven of carrots, will therefore keep 33 beasts 
for six months. Fourteen acres of clover, mown twice, will 
keep the same quantity five months, and the other month 
they are kept with tares or barley cut green. 
I have no calculation with respect to the quantity of manure, 
&c., produced by sheep, on the adoption of the plan of Mr. 
Childers, of Cantley, but in order to carry into effect the 
Flemish plan, it would be necessary that the sheep have a 
flagged court yard and tanks attached, and the whole court 
washed with water once a day. Mr. Childers's plan, if pro- 
perly conducted, would not only yield a great quantity of 
manure of both kinds, but a greater quantity of flesh upon 
the least quantity of food is thus produced. All animals feed 
better on a variety of food, and are kept more healthy. 
Majendie proved that dogs die when kept on jelley for a long 
time. The rabbit, if kept on cabbage without any other food, 
becomes aff'ected with the rot, entozoa breed in its liver. 
Entozoa, however, are not the sole cause of rot in sheep ; for 
they are frequently present in the liver of healthy sheep, as I 
have verified myself in innumerable instances. 
