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Article XXIIL 



On a Difeafe the Norfolk Stock Lambs are liable 

 to from eating Jelf'Jown Barley in Autumn, 



[By a Norfolk Farmer.] 

 Gentlemen, 

 TN our open field-lands, where fheep arc moftly 

 ^ kept, there are every fummer large tradls of 

 barley, in which, after harveft is ended, and parti- 

 cularly when it proves a wet Michaelmas, a great 

 quantity of felf-fown barley comes up in Odlober. 

 As the fheep then run at large, they are very fond 

 of this crop, but it often proves fatal to them. 



The cold dews in the latter end of 06tober, and 

 the fogs in November, generally hang in drops on 

 the blade of this felf-fown crop, longer than on the 

 reft of the herbage; and the plants themfelves, be- 

 i jg of a cold watery quality, are thereby rendered 

 ftill more unwholfome. After feeding on it for 

 about a month Or fix weeks, the flock-lambs grow 

 dull and heavy, rub themfelves more than ufual, 

 lofe their appetite, and wafte till they die. 



After they are once vifibly afFeded, removing 



fcldom faves them. The ftefh of fuch as are killed 



H 2 appear^ 



