. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. FEEDING SHEEP ON TURNIPS. 451 at the bottom, for the more easy seizure of the pieces of turnip by the mouths of the sheep, by nailing two boards together upon the two trian- gular-shaped ends, and placing it upon billets for feet. The troughs are set in a line along the outside 2 rows of turnips about to be pulled. The turnip-cutter is wheeled to each trough successively by the field-v/orker, who works the handle, and its hopper is filled by ano
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. FEEDING SHEEP ON TURNIPS. 451 at the bottom, for the more easy seizure of the pieces of turnip by the mouths of the sheep, by nailing two boards together upon the two trian- gular-shaped ends, and placing it upon billets for feet. The troughs are set in a line along the outside 2 rows of turnips about to be pulled. The turnip-cutter is wheeled to each trough successively by the field-v/orker, who works the handle, and its hopper is filled by another worker, who tops and tails the turnips. The sheep range themselves on either side of the trough. (1070.) I have constructed fig. 226 to give you a bird's-eye view of the manner in which a turnip-field should be fitted up for sheep. There are, Fig. 1^ % i "% -i *â¦Â«. « « â * i: -4 * * pn % â ^ ft â¢Â» ^ * t -4 » '* ^ i -i- ifc « * ^ * ' M THE MODE OF OCCUPYING TURNIP-LAND WITH SHEEP. in the first place, the turnips themselves a, of which half have been drawn by pulling 2 drills and leaving 2 alternately. The ground upon which they are growing is represented partly bare, because they are supposed to have been pulled up in the progress of the turaip-cutter advancing from one side of the break to the other ; and it constitutes the break. As mat- ters are represented, the turnip-slicer b is proceeding up beside the 2 drills c, and depositing the cut turnips into one of the small troughs d, out of another of which some of the sheep are eating, while others are helping themselves fi-om the bulbs in the drills c. The sheep are represented scat- tered over the ground as they are usually seen, some following one an- other in a string f toward the place where their food is preparing for them, while others, g, are lying resting, regardless of food. Some, k, are standing, as if meditating what next to do, and others, /, examining the structure of the n
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