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If a cow is out of order, a farmer will go or fend 

 many miles to a cow-leech for remedies; this cow 

 is worth perhaps 9I. or i ol. ; but if a fheep is dif 

 ordered, the fhepherJ cuts off his ears and his tail, 

 fo that the blood may come ; gives the ears and the 

 tail a knock or two with the handle of his knife, 

 and fo turns him going ; if the flieep lives, he lives ; 

 if he dies, the Ikin is dripped off, and the fliepherd's 

 dog eats the carcafe: this is the common courfe of 

 things. Is this agreeable to common fenfe? The 

 flock, of fuppofe 500, worth 15s. each, comes to 375I- 

 if wethers or barreners; but if couples, fuppofe 

 at one guinea each couple, that is 5251.; then the 

 care of a flock of flieep to a cow fliould be in the fame 

 proportion as 375I. to 9I. or as 525I. to lol. That 

 cannot be any good excufe to fay that the value of a 

 fingle flieep to a Angle cow is only to be confidered 

 in this cafe. Anfwer; No man within my knowledge 

 keeps 500 cows; but many perfons keep 500, .1000, 

 yea, fome I have known between 2 and 3000 flieep; 

 and therefore the judgment fliould be the worth or 

 value of a- cow or cows, compared with the worth or 

 value of a flock of flieep, as part of the farmer s 

 (lock, and fo his care fliould be iu proportion to the 

 value. 



The wool of the flieep does in a great meafure dif. 

 cover the difeafed ftate of the animal. 



In Smithfield market, the fort, make, and wool, of 

 different flieep might be obferved and compared with 

 advantage. The 



