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vances, fo as to give them better room to choofe their bed where they find it moft convenient. A neceflary confequence of this will be, that if the field be uneven init’s furface, the fheep will na- turally choofe to lie moft upon the high and dry patches, which are ufually the pooreft parts of the field, fo that thefe patches will thus get a more than ordinary fhare of the dung, which is precifely what they ftand in need of to make the crop equal over the whole. To admit of this, it will be proper to begin in all cafes at the higher parts of the field, and advance downward to the loweft extremity. But on this, and other particulars of management, equally obvious, it is unneceflary to enlarge.

I fhall juft hint, becaufe it is not as yet univer= fally known, that where the early grafs yielded by watered meadows cannot be obtained, fuccu- lent food for keeping fheep on in the months of April or May, till other grafs gets up, may al- ways be procured merely by fowing or planting (this kind of turnip admits of being tranfplanted as eafily as colworts,) a proportion of the turnip- field. with the fwedifh turnip; of ruta baga, which will keep. perfectly fucculent till June, if fo long wanted; as I myfelf have often experi- enced. This kind of turnip does not indeed

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