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flock, at twenty-six shillings per tod, when I last sold, the year before last; at present I sell no wool. My short wool flock ewes tod, about ten to the tod. I have had wethers of this sort, which have come up to twenty five pounds per quarter. Those I kill for the house this winter, are from twelve to sixteen pounds,‘some eighteen or nineteen, one twenty pounds a quarter. I give great quantities occasionally, in the spring, of skegs in the corn to my lowland ewes before lambing, when, you can easily conceive upon sucha sort of farm, I must be put to it fre- quently for support. I also chop the straw with the corn in it, and give itto them occasionally, and they are very fond of it. This year, having plenty of turnips upon my low farm, I have already begun to give some to a parcel of ewes which I expect to lamb about the middle of Feb- ruary. In this manner I support a flock of 120 ewes with their last year’s lambs, on a farm which, when I began to inclose, had never been let at above three pounds a year.

“« Skegs are remarkably good for horses, in the straw, or threshed, and in the straw remarkably so for cows. Straw beasts are also very fond of the straw. I can get taking up weak land from the swarth, from four to six quarters an acre. On the same land Ishould not have been able to get, perhaps, above three sacks of black, red Friesland, or what is called short small, or any other kind of corn. If land is in the state in which all our bad land will be, more or less, after the seeds are quite run out, and as is frequently the case, when you cannot conveniently put it again into tillage so soon as you could wish, from either the too great quantity you may have to improve, or other circumstances—if in this state, I say, it were to be taken up with turnips, the most eligible way, it would be often impossible to provide manure wfon the farm for any quantity of land sufficient for the purpose, which makes skegs a very desirable crop, and which, if for that reason alone, I find a great acquisition, and feel 4 pleasure“im having been the first to introduce them into this countrys

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