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a convenient place for drawing out and. carting away. As 50010 as a Sufficient quantity are collected, men with cromes, forks,&c. draw them out, and pile them on a heap or ridge; they are then, as 8001 as convenient, cut down from top to bottom of the ridge, witb the blade of a Scythe, or, which is | better, a thatcher's knife, in Slices about Six inches wide, | which makes them more convenient to plough in. They are N immediately carried on to the land, in their green state, let down in heaps as large and at equal distances- with those of muck, Spread, ploughed in immediately that they may not dry W| away, and the turnips Sown. They are not more difficult to )| Plough in than /ong?sh muck, but it Is as well to have a boy or | woman follow each plough, to draw them into the furrow, | ihat they may be the more completely buried. 1 have myself 4 pursued this practice for eight years, have always found ratber j better turnips on the land so dressed, than on that manured in the usual way, and barley next year equally good. The turnips this year, where the weeds weie Set On, are more VIgOrous than those in the S5ame piece manured with dung,&c.

1 fear I have taken up too much of your time, but I could not refrain from giving this last piece ot information, thinking it may be useful to those of your readers Situated like mygelf near Streams, or large pieces of Water.

; 1 am, Sir, yours,&c.

| P.4. |„P.S. Since writing the above, I have read with Satisfac- | tion a Jetter Signed P.Y.“On the Water in Sheep." I have | found the method adopted by his tenant of giving the Sheep a | Certain portion of exercise, beneficial. We also are Cautious || 10 avoid, if possible, letting the Sheep on to a Fresh Shift of

| turnips, when the Jeaves are wet from rain, dew,&c. They | ought always to have hay by them in racks; and last]y, be- | fore we put the Sheep on turnips, we always bleed them, and occasionally afterwards. This operation my Shepherd per-

| forms by thrusting a small penknife- through the top of the nose. This was recommended to me by a gentleman, who j| has given much time and attention to Sheep. I have prac- tsed it for Some years, and have no doubt of its utility. |) He enforced his advice, by telling me, that he had at a for- | mer time Sold Some turnips to a butcher at Norwich, to be fed | off with Sheep, of which a very great many Soon dropt, by his| | advice all the remaining were bled, after which be lost none.