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is good, will feed twenty-five ſheep weighing fhixteen pounds a quarter, from 1ſt November to 1ſt April; even ſuppoſing the ſheep made no advance in theſe five months, the very encreaſe of the price of the mutton from 4d. to 82d. or 6d. a pound, would bring a profit to the farmer as conſideráble as it is eafily! calculated. When to this there is added the value of what they would gain in point of weight, the proût, it is hoped, will appear to be ſo great 2s to make the deſire to grow turnips irrefiſtible, and quickly to increaſe the guantity an hundred-fold beyond what it is at preſents

Where the land is very dry the ſheep may be penned upon a ſmall part oí the field of turnips, and ſhifted to another as thoſe in the firſt part are eaten ups but if there is a field of graſs near at band, the ſuperior im- provement of the ſheep will pay for the labour of car- rying the turnips to be eaten on that field where they will lie dry and clean, and where the turnips will be leſs trampled on and abuſed,

Rotation of Crops.—It is the general opinion of farmers in Weſtmoreland, that their lands are better fuited for graſs than for bearing crops of corn, and they are plough- ed for three or four years, not with an expedtation that the corn will be more profitable than the graſs, but in order to renovate them for graſs, and to deſtroy the moſs, which in a few years over-runs all their ley grounds: but there are ſome who are perſuaded, that the neat profits of the three or four years the lands are under crop, uſually exceed the profits of any other three or four years, while the ſame lands lie in gras, and they think that their fer- tility for the produdtion of either grafs or corn would be injured by ploughing for a longer term, or after ſhorter intervals of reſt.

Whether the lands under the preſent ſyſtem are moſt

profitable to the farmer when they are in corn or in gras, E it