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Typical Farms m East AngUa. 
below, they will find that the East Anglia farmers expend quite 
as much on labour per acre as they do. 
Nothing in connexion with the farming of East Anglia im- 
pressed me so strongly as the careful, thorough way in which the 
sheep are managed. On every farm I visited, whether it was 
strong, medium, or light land, the same careful management 
was evident. 
On almost the whole of the farms large breeding flocks are 
kept, and at the time I was in the district they were all on the 
clovers or other green foods. In every case the lambs were 
running forward, and were being fed, separated from the ewes. 
This is effected by a double set of folds with creeps between 
them, through which the lambs can pass to the fresh or forward 
fold. One fold is moved daily so that the ewes may clean up 
what the lambs have left the previous day. In the forward fold 
the lambs, beside having the first bite of the food grown in the 
fold, generally get artificial food, and in most cases mangel are 
also spread about. The mangel seem to be relished by the 
lambs, as they are always well broken into before the ewes get 
a chance of them. In some cases, while the lambs were running 
forward on a fresh fold, the ewes were being partly fed on vetches 
or other green food brought from other fields and placed in 
feeding racks. 
While all the lambs were fed forward, on several of the 
farms the single and twin lambs were separated, and both ewes 
and lambs fed somewhat differently, so that the whole of the 
lambs at weaning time might be a level lot. 
As will be seen by the report*, on several of the farms for 
certain portions of the day the lambs are separated from the 
ewes. “ Use is second nature,” and, improbable as it may 
seem to flockowners who have never seen ewes and unweaned 
lambs grazing quietly in different fields, still they do so, ami 
while the lambs are in every sense of the term “ in clover,” the 
ewes earn their living in a harder way. 
The following brief descriptions of the holdings I visited 
may convey some idea of the different systems of management 
pursued. It may help the reader, however, if at this stage I 
briefly enumerate tho names and addresses of the occupants of 
the several farms. 
1. Mr. G. E. Dainiree, near Littleport, Cambridgeshire. 
2. Mr. H. J. Martin, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. 
3. Mr. C. E. E. Cooke, TIinxton Grange, Whittlesford, Cambridge. 
4. Mr. Christopher Parsons, TTor«eheath, Linton, Cambridge. 
