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Mr. Turnell, of Stokeham, has a particular method of feed- ing which deserves to be mentioned. He feeds about eighty head of beasts ayear, from twelve to twenty of his own breed. He always buys in at spring, takes care to have twenty to thirty fresh beasts, or incalved heifers, mostly of both sorts, that are sure to go off before the middle of July; when he lays in, 7. ¢. shuts. up about forty acres, to finish or make fat all his beasts that went lean at spring.* These go off in succession till Christmas. The land laid in(where good) will be very often ready to pasture again in six weeks. Mr. Turnell gave me the following instance of the difference of sand and clay land, in bringing the sheep forward. He feeds the same breed as Mr. Wright. At one year old, Mr. Wright’s were worth 1]. 19s. and Mr. Turnell’s of the same age and breed, not more than 11. They were compared in April and May. Mr. Turnell’s, he owns indeed, had not been fairly kept. In the February after, sixty out of ninety of Mr. Turnell’s were sold at one year and ten months old, for 21. 6s. Clay ground will not bringthem so forward, they must be kept another year. Zo shew the difference of the value arising from the breed, Mr.‘Turnell told me, some of the’same breed as his, kept by Mr. Wright’s brother on good clay land by the Trent side, were sold for 2]. a piece, besides the wool, at one year and a half old.‘Two amongst

%* This practice agrees with that of fogging, mentioned in the Cardiganshire Report. Sir R. Sutton has tried it with success for keeping his stock in winter. Many years ago being in the praCtice of buying in Highland Scotch bullocks about O&ober, which he began to kill for his family about that time twelve- month, he used to give them the first winter straw and sometimes a little hay, and did not find them go on to his mind. It seemed indeed to be the opinion of the neighbourhood that they would not feed kindly. His bailiff falling into conversation with a Scotch drover, and telling,him how he managed them, the drover told him:he would spoil themif ke gave them any dry meat at all. It would(as he expressed himself) dry them up. Since that they have never had any thing the first year but such fog as they could pick up, and have had alittle hay to finish them, only when the weather has been very hard frost

Or snow,