. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. XXXIX.] ON FOLDING. 467 whicli mifi^lit be fairly stated as worth 7s. 6d. per load, amounting to 10/. 105. The account, indeed, neitlier shows tiie breed of the sheep nor the (juantity of turnips which the land produced, and is so fur imperfect; but, • supposing the straw to be worth twenty shillings a load, and the labour of spreading the manure upon the ground to cost ten shillings, this would leave 4/. for the value of the dung, or three pence per week for that of each sheep. I
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture; cbk. Ch. XXXIX.] ON FOLDING. 467 whicli mifi^lit be fairly stated as worth 7s. 6d. per load, amounting to 10/. 105. The account, indeed, neitlier shows tiie breed of the sheep nor the (juantity of turnips which the land produced, and is so fur imperfect; but, • supposing the straw to be worth twenty shillings a load, and the labour of spreading the manure upon the ground to cost ten shillings, this would leave 4/. for the value of the dung, or three pence per week for that of each sheep. In Hertfordshire also, 300 short-woolled sheep, penned in like manner from the end of October to the end of March, and littered with stubble, are staled to have produced 80 large cart-loads of the richest dung. The plan is, indeed, in use among many persons who have large flocks upon light land, and is there employed for the purposes both of fatting wethers for the market and of procuring shelter for the ewes at lambing- time. Mr. Ellman of Glynde, has, for instance, two or three yards with sheds twelve feet wide around them, which, being also littered, are ex- tremely warm, and preserve many lambs in stormy weather. They may be fenced with wattled hurdled-vvork, for the sake of coolness, lest a greater degree of closeness might render the yard too hot; and the system has answered so well on several large farms, that the sheep are said to have been found more healthy than when kept out in the fields in the common manner*. The late General Murray had a standing fold, or rather a sheep-cote, which inclosed an area of fifty-seven yards in length by twenty in breadth; thus containing 1140 square yards, in which u})wardsof 700 sheep could be penned at night, with more than a square yard and a half for each. All around it was a boarded shed, nine or ten feet wide, and also across the middle ; the latter being open on both sides. A rack for hay placed against the wall, with a small m
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