[ 142 J 
As foon as the lambs are able to travel with the 
ewes, (perhaps about the middle of March) they 
begin to feed the water meadows. Care is, or 
ought to be taken, to make the meadows as dry as 
poffible for fome days before the fheep are let in. 
The grafs is hurdled out daily in portions, ac- 
cording to what the number of fheep can eat ina 
day, to prevent their trampling the reft; at the 
fame time, leaving a few open {paces in the hurdles 
for the lambs to get through, and feed forward in 
the frefh grafs. One acre of good gra/s will be 
fufficient for five hundred couples for a day. 
On account of the quicknefs of this grafs, it is 
not ufual to allow the ewes and lambs to go into it 
with empty bellies, nor before the dew is off in 
the morning. 
The hours of feeding are ufually from ten or 
eleven o’clock in the morning to about four or five 
in the evening, when the fheep are driven to fold; 
the fold being generally at that time of the year 
(as has been mentioned before) on the barley fallow. 
And the great object is to have water-mead grals, 
fufficient for the ewes and lambs, till the barley 
fowing is ended. 
Meadows laid up for hay.—Ae foon as this firft 
crop of grafs is eaten off by the ewes and lambs, 
the water is immediately thrown over the mea- 
dows, (at this time of the year two or three days 
over “ each pitch” is generally fufficient) and it is 
then 
