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2386 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

SECT, 2,—Sheep«

The breed of ſheep, kept on the mountains and com- : mons of Weſtmoreland, is either native or a croſs with Scotch rams. No attempt hàs yet been made to im-

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prove, either the carcaſe or the fleece. They are horned, dark or grey faced, thick pelted, with coarle, ſtrong,; hairy wool. The whóle flock upon a farm is O to- 4 gether, which is different from the pradice in thoſe counties where ſheep farming, 1s thought to be the beſt

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underſtood, Winteriag— Thoſe ftore-maſters who have not upon

their‘own farms paſtures ſufficient for the wintering of

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their young fheep, ſend them to the low grounds from the 1ſt November to 6th April, and pay 2s. a-head for thoſe that return, D are ſo ſubjedt to the Black water (Sickneſs, or Midd:ing-il!) that, at an average, ten out of an hundred die before Chriſtmas. O that, being Very hardy, they ſeldom die, and never of thar diſeaſe. Price.— The wedders aré’ ſold in Cctober, when four years and a half old, from 9s. to 13s éach; the. barren ewes aft Lammas, from 8s. to 10S.; and the old êwes about 6s. to be wintered in the inc fattened with their lambs the enfuing Summer. Salving.—In Odtober, or the beginning ot November,

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the whole flock is ſalved ſo heavily, that a gallon of tar and 16 lbs. of butter are expended upon thirty-five ſheep. A man may be hired for this work at Is. 8d. a-day, in which time he will not ſalve above ten or a dozen; or he will undertake to ſalve them at 2d. a-head. he whole expence 1s about ſixpence a-piece, It has been repeatedly tried to ſubſtitute tobacco-liquor for the butter and tar, but it is generally imagined that the wool 1s better for the ſheep having been ſalved. Near Kirkbyſteven, this

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