| William Tatham - 1801 - 474 pages
...into it with empty bellies, nor before the dew is off in a morning. The cuftomary hours of feeding are from ten or eleven o'clock in the morning to about...the fold being generally at that time of the year on the barley fallow : and the great object is to have water- mead grafs fufficient for the ewes. and... | |
| James Anderson - Agriculture - 1801 - 820 pages
...into it with empty bellies, nor before the dew is off in a morning. The cuftomary hours of feeding are from ten or eleven o'clock in the morning to about...the fold being generally at that time of the year on the barley fallow : and the great object is to have water-mead grafs fufficient for the ewes and... | |
| Agriculture - 1802 - 464 pages
...what the number of fheep can eat in a day, to prevent their trampling the reft ; at the fame tinie, leaving a few open fpaces in the hurdles for the lambs...mentioned before) on the barley fallow. And the great objeft is to have water-mead grafs fufficient for the ewes and lambs, till the barley fowing is ended.... | |
| Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1812 - 450 pages
...travel with the ewes, they begin to feed the water-meadows. The hours of feeding are usually from ten to eleven o'clock in the morning to about four or five in the evening, when the sh'eep are driven to fold. This is continued until the end of April, when the ' meadow is shut up for... | |
| William Humphrey Marshall - 1817 - 750 pages
...it with empty bellies, nor before the dew is off in the morning. " The hours of feeding are usually from ten or eleven o'clock in the morning to about four or five in the evening, when the sheep are driven to fold ; the fold being generally at that time of the year on the barley fallow.... | |
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