THE farmer’s manual. 
fl8 
Whatever tnultiplics feed for your stock, enlarges the 
quantity of your hay, and enables you to increase the 
quantity of your stock. Whatever will enable you to 
increase the quantity of your stock, increases the va- 
lue of your property directly, and the subsequent va- 
lue of your farm indirectly, by increasing the quan- 
tity of your manure, and thereby the quantity and 
value of your crops ; thus you see that your potatoe 
fallows, which do not exhaust your soil, may be made 
the source of great improvement and wealth to the 
farmer*. 
Your sheep should be fed daily upon potatoes ; no 
article of stock will repay you with greater profit ; the 
quantity of their wool will be greater, and quality 
finer; they will be free frona ticks, unless kept in too 
warm a covering, and too many in a fold ; they will 
never shed their wool, and seldom lose their lambs, 
when fed daily upon potatoes. The saving of hay 
will be as great as with your other stock in the same 
ratio. The rage of our country has been great for 
the merino breed of' sheep ; this has now subsided, 
and the farmers generally calculate to keep a due pro- 
portion of the English and merino breeds, to suit the 
mutton and wool markets. Experience can only be 
the true guide upon this subject. 
Your affairs are now all snug, and well arranged ; 
let your accounts claim your particular attention. 
They should all be posted by the first of this month, 
and all balanced and closed, before the month is out; 
the saving you will make in yearly reckonings with 
your merchants, mechanics, labourers, &c. will rich- 
ly repay your attention. Perhaps there is no one 
thing in which farmers generally are more slack, than 
in their accounts, and it is of importance that it should 
be corrected. 
* From the best calculations maJe by the best feeders, carrots and 
potatoes, are found to be worth 2s. per bushel, boiled and given to 
hogs, or given raw to beef cattle, or Is. when given to hogs, raw, or 
unboiled. o > 
