to $1 20c.

per acre.
The sheep are all folded on turnips or grass fields, except the breeding ewes in the lambing season.

The enclosures are made of _hurdles_, of which all reading Americans have read, but not one in a thousand ever has seen.

They are a kind of diminutive, portable, post-and-rail fence, of the New England pattern, made up in permanent _lengths_, so light that a stout man might carry two or three of them on his shoulders at once.

The two posts are sawed or split pieces of wood, about two inches thick, three wide, and from five to six feet in length.