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land will be either mucked, or manured, twice in Ave years; viz. for wheat and turnips. The flock is constantly penned upon the fallows, or some of the meadow land, except when the sheep are foddered, in the hardest part of the winter, and then they are penned in a fixed fold, made large, and divided into two parts; this is generally done, during the months of December, January, and February. This fold, which is pitched in some sheltered spot, and is first laid a foot thick with maiden earth, is daily lit- tered with leaves, moss, fern, stubble, or any litter that can be collected; and the fold is made use of at opposite ends, alter- nately every other night; hay being given in cribs, which are moved into the respective folds, as used. When the sheep leave this fold, the beginning of March, a layer of lime, chalk, or peat ash, is put upon the top, and the whole being mixed up together, makes excellent manure for the succeeding turnip crop. It is astonishing what advantages may be deduced, from a steady ad- herence to this practice.— Six hundred loads of excellent compost, were made the first year of this experiment, in three months, from 600 sheep.

There is a new method, which has been observed in breaking up some of this land, which may be worth notice; and with that view I give it. Some parts of it were so coarse, and rough, that it could not have been broke to pieces, and cleaned in the ordinary way, without much time, and immense labour and ex- pence. The following experiment was therefore tried, and found to answer extremely well. In the early part of the winter, it was ploughed up to a full depth, with a swing plough, the mould- board of which, was so placed, as to lay the turf completely in- verted. This was well trod down with cattle, and rolled, and the sheep occasionally drove over it. In the spring, it was har- rowed, and cropped with oats. As soon as the oats were off, the surface was harrowed, and dragged, so as to get as much loose earth as possible, without bringing up the turf again. It was sown early in the autumn with winter vetches, which were of in- estimable value to the ewes and lambs, the following spring. In the first week in June, when it had produced two crops from one 1 2

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