- THE farmer’s manual. 
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of the cross rails firm in the ground, with a slant to 
your liking, to form your rack. These cribs, and 
racks will be both cheap, and of a great saving in your 
feeding. 
Draw your late rotted hemp, and set it up across 
your fences, for a winter’s drying. Cart into your 
barn-yard every thing that may be converted into 
manure. Crop lightly your late feeding grounds, 
such as clover, timothy, or English mowing, both by 
your cattle, horses and sheep. Feed oft' your turnips 
with your sheep, as they stand, by the use of hurdles, 
if possible, and in the following manner, viz. collect 
a number of chesnut stakes 6 feet long, and about 3 
inches square, and sharpen them at the bottom; nail 
on to two of these stakes five strips of boards, (sawed 
for the purpose,) of about 4 or 5 inches wide, and 10 
or 12 feet long, fasten each strip with two 10 penny 
nails, in each stake, thus nailing on the five strips at 
such distances as will be of sufficient height to secure 
your sheep in their enclosure. When you have pre- 
pared a sufllcient number of hurdles to enclose one 
or two roods of your turnip field, let two hands set 
the hurdles for the enclosure, with a crow- bar, or a 
wooden bar sharpened for the purpose ; this may be 
done quick, and at very small expense in the fol- 
lowing manner ; let one hand (after the hurdl^MH 
laid round the place of enclosure,) hold uj) a h^wre 
erect, and the other with the bar strike into the earth 
the holes for the stakes, (at the foot of each stake,) 
then filant the hurdle ; then the next, and so on in 
succession, until the enclosure is finished ; then turn 
in your sheep, cows, or cattle ; when one enclosure is 
fed off, and you have a desire to enrich that particu- 
lar spot, for any special purpose, as for onions, car- 
rots, scarcity-root, &c. you may juill the rest of your 
field and cart on your turnips and feed them upon the 
spot ; but if it is your wish to eto ich your whole 
field for wheat and clover, you may remove your hur- 
dles, and set again, and thus feed off the whole crop ; 
