222 FOLDING, 
aged ewes to be annually drawn off. The extent of 
Mr. Knight’s farm is detailed under the article Occu-= 
PATIONS, 
Folding. 
This practice, except on the common fields, is at¬ 
tempted but by few persons who have valuable flocks; 
Mr. Knight has made some experiments on folding, 
which he means to continue, as he wishes to promote 
every source of manure. Upon a weak sanely loam, for 
which there was no manure, and not beino; in time for 
turnips, the fallow was continued through the winter, 
and folded with sheep; and, in the spring 1807, sown 
with barley and seeds, the barley not equal to what 
might have been expected, I estimated it, in July, at 
120 bushels per acre, much inferior to that succeeding 
turnips with the usual manure; consequently, folding 
appears to be inferior to the common manure, and tur¬ 
nip husbandry. At Michaelmas, I again viewed this 
piece of land with Mr. Knight, and found the seeds un¬ 
commonly promising ; the folding has, consequently, 
answered better for the seeds than for the barley crop, 
and, perhaps, their growth might be promoted by the 
thin crop of barley. 
Folding for Wheat. —/V 14-acre piece sown on lay or 
turf, once ploughed, was folded upon by about 200 
sheep, from sowing time, the end of September, to the 
end of February; they went over 12 acres, two acres 
of the best land had no manure ; the whole was drilled 
with wheat at nine inches, two bushels and a half per 
acre, the crop light, not exceeding 20 bushels per acre; 
sort of wheat, the common lammas red straw ; here the 
manure 
