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ping off merely the tops or about three inches in length. 
The stock or ewe lambs follow next, and the stock ewes come 
last, and clean up what is left. A good description of wether 
lamb, five or six months old, will arrive upon this plan at the 
weight of fifty-six to sixty pounds, without corn or cake, and 
go to fold every night. Upon an average, half an acre will 
maintain 200 ewes and 200 lambs a-day in good condition, or 
ten acres, with a pound and a half of oil cake per head, will 
keep 250 sheep a month — {F.S., Sept., 1840.) 
On the Stenchcombe farm, in Gloucestershire, Mr. Dim- 
mery commences eating off tares in the second week in May, 
and twenty acres keep him a flock of 850 sheep seven weeks, 
or until the 1st July ; which crop," says he, " is free of all 
expense beyond the cost of seed, as the land does not 
undergo more expense in preparing it for the turnip crop 
" than if it had not been sown with vetches ; and the manure 
left by the sheep, with what additional dung can be pro- 
" cured, always produces a good crop of late turnips. The 
" turnip sowing is generally finished by the middle of July."* 
The Rev. W. Rham grows turnips after tares, and if land is 
not clean, he strongly recommends potatoes, carrots, parsnips, 
or mangel wurtzel, to be sown the following year. Henry 
Gawler, Esq., in the North Hampshire Report, says : — " The 
" cultivation of tares is extending every year. They make, 
with turnip crops, the arable farms support as much stock 
as the grazing." And again, p. 29 : — " A succession of 
" tares and turnips in the same year may be raised and con- 
" sumed on dry land, until it be made of any desired degree 
" of richness." 
The land, after the tares are eaten off, is cleared for tur- 
nips. The portion first cleared (which, by Mr. Howard, of 
Melburn, is begun to be eaten as soon as the 15th May) is 
first ploughed and harrowed, &c., if not worked with Biddell's 
* Journal of Royal Agricultural Society, vol. I., p. 389. 
