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meat ready cut; but during the winter, they would have been inured to the custom; attention ntight be paid to giving them their food as fresh as possible, and to allow them sufficient exercise upon any cleared grounds. Being always, as it were, in hand, under constant inspection, they would be within reach of Immediate assistance; not would there be a fiftieth part of the usual danger from the fly, the scab, goring, the rot, and all those numerous maladies to which this precarious stock js constantly lable. The flock amounting to thousands, they might be divided, subdivided, and stationed into as many yards, or folds, on different quarters of the farm, as convenience might demand.

Against COTTING, Of HOME-FoLDING sheep in the winter, a practice so ancient and well-establish- ed in Herefordshire, I have never heard or read one single valid objection. As to turning out these poor, delicate creatures, to bring forth in a state of misery and starvation, amidst the snows and deluges ef winter, upon the bleak heath or marsh, coolly calculating how many per centum, ewe and lamb, we shall Jose, and how stoutly they will starve; It 1s a practice barbarous as bull-baiting, and silly as pricking in the belt, They are kept to be fed, and they would never pay better for feed, than inthe winter; during which, the loss, instead of thirty per cent. too oftenthe case, would, pro-

‘bably, not exceed one, the flock going to summer-

keep, in full health, and double the worth of starve- Ings. A large sheep will make a load of dung in the winter.

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