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we can maintain a large head of sheep and a 
dairy of cows at the same tiine, and for both 
to thrive — that a certain quantity of herbage 
can only maintain a certain quantity of 
mouths to feed upon it — that it is not a com- 
mon pracficc for dairy farmers to run sheep 
amongst tlieir cows at the time they are in 
full milk — but yet, upon good land a small 
proportion of sheep would be no evil. It is 
the abuse of the measure, and making sheep 
the principal stock upon a dairy farm, that 
will render it unproduclive. The best pos- 
sible use whicli can be made of such farm, 
in order to preserve the herbage fine, sweet* 
and wholesome, is to lay on a large head of 
sheep as a second stock in the latter part of the 
year ; so that, according to the warmth, 
strength, and forwardness of the spring, they 
are not continued so longthereasto partakeof 
the first spring grass, or prevent its growth 
for the use of cows. 
The horse having two rows of projeefing 
teeth, bites the cotyledons of the plants, and 
upon very short pastures frequently does 
