t*]0 On the Management of Sheep May" 



fay a half, miy be thrown in with the crop of wheat taken after 

 fallow, v/hich is the fecond year of the rotation ; this part may 

 be paflured for three years, and broke up in the fixth for oats, 

 which concludes the courfe. Again, in a rotation of eight, grafs 

 feeds, in like manner, may be fown with a part of the fallow 

 wheat, v/hich part can -be paflured for three years, then broke 

 up for oats, fuccef ded by beans and wheat* By fuch arrange- 

 ments, made according to circumftances, it is an eafy matter to 

 prefcrve a regular rotation, and to proportion the corn crops to 

 die quantity of manure coUc^led upon the premifes. 



Thus I have given you my fentiments on the moil proper and 

 economical methods of applying farm-yard manure in different 

 fituations, and under different circumftances ; the fum and fub- 

 ilance of which is, that feeding the land frequently v/ith dung, 

 not giving too much at once, and fpreading it with exact nefs, 

 are objects deferring the attention of every farmer who wiihes 

 10 make the moft of the premifes under his occupation. 



I am yours &:c. 



Arator. 



FOR THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



On the Managemer.t of Sheep at CoutereiSy in the department of the 

 BafTes Pyrenees in France^ ivith a?i account of the Scab or 6heep 

 Pox : Compofed by M. Tenon from information procured from the 

 Shepherds of the diftricl^ and communicated by him in 1791 to the 

 Paris Society of Agriculture. * 



General Circumjlances, 



The climate of Cautarets is confiderably colder than that of 

 Paris, owing to the elevation of the mountains which compofe 

 that diftricl *, thefe are covered with fnow through the whole wiiv 

 ter feafon, and part of the fpring, and there are even fome fpots 

 where the fnow never melts. In the month of July 1762, when 

 the thermometer at Paris indicated a temperature of 92°. 7 by 

 .Fahrenheit's fcale, it rofe only to 77^at Cauteretsj and, while the 



grafs 



* We are indLuted to the kindnefs of Sir John Siiiclair Bart, for tlu; 

 prefent appearance of this memoir, which was originally tranflated from 

 -the French, at his rcquefl, by one of our corrcfpoadents, who has new 

 obligingly re\ifed it for cur nfe. 



