iH THE farmer’s MAHtAtit 
should not bp suffered to feed on watered iheadows. 
Water flowioje over grass-grounds after Uie first of 
May, is sure to give your sheep the rot, whatever be 
the soil. 
Mr. Bakewtdl is remarkably attentive to the point 
of wintering his cattle. All his horned cattle are 
tied up in open, or other sheds, all winter, and fed 
according to their kind, on straw, turnips, or hay. 
The lean beasts have straw alone. Young cattle, 
which require to be kept in a tliriving state, and fat-; 
tening ones, are fed with turnips ; and in the spring, 
when the turnips are gone, hay is their only substi- 
tute ; by these means, he is able to keep a large 
stock. His farm, in all, consists of 440 acres; 110 
of which, are arable, and the rest is grass ; and he 
keeps 60 horses, 400 large sheep, 150 horned cattle, 
and has generally 15 acres of wheat, and 26 of spring 
grain. 
It deserves particular notice, that Mr. Bakewcll 
pays a yearly rent for this farm; and when he came 
into possession, the farm was so low, from bad ma- 
nagemwt, as to render it very difficult to rent it at 
any price. 
The first attention of Mr. Bakewell, upon enter- 
ing this farm. Was turned to the improvement of his 
stock ; this he efl’ected in a gradual manner, by pro- 
curing the best breeds for their general propagation, 
until he raised the reputation of his farm, and of his 
stock, to a rank of the first eminence in England. 
The method of littering horses and cattle, as is of- 
ten practised both in England and America, not only 
renders the animals so much more warm and com- 
fortable, as to lessen the expense of food, but great- 
ly increases the quantity of manure, by preparing 
10 or 15 loads of long dung to each creature, in a 
winter, so stabled and littered, either with coarse hay, 
straw, &c. and thereby furnishes the means of saving 
the whole (or nearly) expense of wintering, in the 
next year’s tillage. Now if we lake into considera- 
