« the cattle, without the probability of any grafs at 
«© May-day to receive them. Young ewes of all the 
<< principal flocks, which lambed down late, will not 
« rear half their produce,” &c. &c.—Even in the 
neighbourhood where the writer of this refides, are 
many inftances almoft equally calamitous: 
A collector of mort fkins (é. ¢. of thofe of fheep 
having died of hunger, difeafe, &c.) bought, a few 
_ days fince, of a neighbouring farmer, whofe flock 
before amounted to only 240 fheep, 60 {kins at a 
purchafe. Another, with a flock of 100 ewes, has 
already only 30 lambs left. A third, we are told, 
had fometime fince 160 ewes without lambs, and 
that he had 20 of the latter died ina night; and that 
a fourth, has at this time 200 ewes without lambs. 
Fortunately, we had almoft every where a double 
ftock of hay in hand; otherwife the general dif 
after muft have been ftill more dreadful. This, 
however, it muft be allowed, arofe from no extraor-_ 
dinary forefight or economy of our own; and as it 
is now nearly confumed, fhould the inclemency of 
the enfuing winter be equal to that of the one now 
' paft, the feverity of its effects muft be every where 
felt to an extent not eafy to appreciate, or (advanced 
as the year now is) provide againft. 
It is generally fuppofed, that fince the introduc- 
tion of turnips to thefe iflands, the numbers of our’ 
fheep mut have greatly increafed, and perhaps 
progreflively, as the cultivation of the former has 
continued 
