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H. Gawler, Esq., says, "A succession of tares and turnips 
" in the same year may be raised and consumed on dry land, 
" until it be made of any desired degree of richness." — (P. 
29, N. Hampshire Report.) — And it is by growing great 
quantities of green food and roots that the Belgian outstrips 
the English farmer in the great number of stock kept, the 
dung collected from them, and, as a certain consequence, the 
corn produced. A beast for every three acres of land being 
with them a common proportion, and in small farms the pro- 
portion is greater, — hence on every 100 acres there ought to 
be 33 beasts, or an equivalent number of sheep — say 200. 
The Rev. W. Rham says, " The number of beasts fed on a 
" farm of which the whole is arable land, is surprising to 
" those who are not acquainted with the mode in which the 
" food is prepared for the cattle."— f i^/^/w. Hush. p. 59.^ 
1. There is a practice pursued upon the chalk soils of 
Hampshire which deserves imitation over this district, and 
that is the sowing of a portion of land with tares to be de- 
pastured hj sheep. It is well known that the farmers in Hamp- 
shire get better prices, and their lambs to greater perfec- 
tion, than any farmers in England, and that by the following 
means. On moderately good soils, they begin to sow in Sep- 
tember on the wheat stubbles which are intended for late tur^ 
nips the following season ; the tares are sown at intervals of a 
fortnight up to the first week in November. When all the 
land which seems fitted to be fallowed by turnips is sown, the 
remaining portion of tares is sown on such strong land, after 
clover seeds, as is intended for wheat the following year : on 
this description of strong land tares are considered a good 
preparation for wheat. About the 1st of June they begin to 
feed off the sale-lambs, waiting if possible till the blossoms 
appear, in order for them to be ready for Overton fair on the 
1 8th of July. Three folds or pitchings are set out, the sale- 
lambs go first, and have two or three pitchings a-day, crop- 
