Live Stock.—Rabbits— Breeds of employed in Warrens. 1208

“nointed with an ointment of the fame kind as that recommended for the fame difeafe in fheep. A little common fulphur fhould likewife be given in their food.

In large lop-eared hogs the parts behind them are apt to crack and become fore in hot feafons; in thefe cafes they fhould be anointed with a little faturnine ointment.

When the udders of the fows take on hard lymphatic{wellings, which is fome- times the cafe, attempts may be made to remove them by the ufe of camphorated

faturnine wafhes or ointments, care being taken to have the parts clean wiped before

the pigs are admitted to fuck. In fuch cafes half a drachm of calomel may like- wife be exhibited every fecond or third night for two or three nights.

Rabbits.—This is a kind of live ftock that can only be employed with profit by the farmer in particular fituations, and under certain circumftances. Wherever land is capable of producing tolerable crops of either grain or grafs, the fyftem of rabbit- warrens can feldom, if ever, be efiablifhed with advantage. The hazard and un- certainty of rabbit-management is conftantly fo great, that it is fafer for the farmer to depend upon even moderate crops of either of the above kinds than this. It is only the light barren fandy forts of land, in fuch declivities and other fituations as cannot be brought under the plough, and which cannot be converted to the pur- pofe of pafture for even fheep, which is in general the proper application of fuch lands, that rabbit-hufbandry is proper to be undertaken upon.

The breeds of this animal are various; but thofe chiefly employed in warrens are moftly either the common gray breed or the filver gray breed; the former is moft valuable in regard to hardinefs and fleth, but the latter in refpect to fkin. The fur of the firft fort, which is the moft prevalent, is chiefly employed in the hat-manufac- tories; while the fkins in the latter cafes are in common dreffed as furs for the China market, and are in general nearly double the value of thofe of the other fort.

This fort of ftock, when turned into the land intended for the warren, foon provide themfelves habitations, by preparing holes and burrowing in the more dry, light, fandy, and elevated parts, where they fafely lodge and propagate their young.

In fome warrens in Lincolnthire, they ftock in the proportion of three couple to the acre, but in other cafes confiderably more. One buck is fufficient for a hundred does.

It is neceffary to have the warrens well inclofed; not only for the purpofe of pre- venting the ftock from firaying and being deftroyed, but to prevent their being annoyed by different forts of vermin.. This is effected in different methods, ac- cording to circumftances, as by walls or paling; but, from the great expen fe of thefe

fences, more commonly by fod, eartb, and turf mounds, or banks and fences coped 70 2