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ON INCLOSING LANI)

mixing them with clumps, belts, and hedge-rows ; for defend-ing them in points of more serious exposure, by means oflarge plantations of forest trees ; for intersecting the wholeby convenient roads ; and for taking judicious measures tocarry safely away all superfluous water from springs, or thatwhich is produced by rain or melting snow.

For the due management of pasture, in the rotations onsuch farms, it were always necessary to hate at least eight orten inclosures or fields in each farm •, perhaps it might be bet-*ter to have a considerably larger number, as some of themmight be usefully preserved as hay meadows, or in old grass.

SECT. V.

OF INCLOSUKES ON SHEEP-FA11MS.

The rude and mean ideas of those who approve of leavingall sheep-farms in the state of mere open wastes, hardly de-serve attention in the present day. Those who wish to seeextended to this valuable animal, a proportion of care in anydegree corresponding to its worth, must be sensible, that thebenefits arising from judicious inclosures are of the greatestimportance on sheep-farms, and are even indispensably ne-cessary.

Without inclosures, it must be a most arduous task to con-fine the rams, and to keep them separate from the ewes tillthe proper season arrive. Accordingly, even the rudest ma-nagers now stipulate to have a tup park, or inclosure for therams. It is hardly less necessary to have proper inclosuresin which the lambs may be safely weaned. And every sen-sible person sees the necessity of having an hospital park, orinclosure for such unfortunate or diseased sheep as are una-ble to provide for themselves in the common pastures or flock-