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Management of Sheep and Cattle. 289 
Regulations adopted in the Care of the Flocks of Graf Hunyadi. 
Ist. A dry and airy shed, or cot, of which. the size is propor- 
tioned to the number of the sheep, is above all things necessary 
for these animals. In order to give them proper room, we ought 
to reckon two feet and a half square for each ewe ; as the hay- 
rack, the partition required during lambing, and the lamb itself, 
will occupy this space. 
2dly. The cot should be cleaned out at least every four weeks, 
because the exhalation from the dung produces disease amongst 
the sheep. 
3dly. All wetness and moisture is injurious, not only to the 
health of the sheep, but also to the wool, on which account they 
ought never to be driven out during rainy weather. 
Athly. The dew and hoar-frost in the morning are injurious 
to them, occasioning cqugh, colds, and diseases of the lungs, and 
therefore they should not be taken to the pasture until the dew 
is gone off. 
5thly. Low and marshy meadows, and such as are covered with 
luxuriant grass, should still more carefully be guarded against 5 
as also stubble lands, in which the scattered grain has sprung up 
anew. , 
6thly. In the summer months, when the heat is intense, the 
sheep must, between the hours of ten and eleven, either be driven 
back to the cot, or at least be conducted to some shaded place. 
7thly. It is indispensably necessary that the sheep should be 
twice taken to water every day, both in summer and winter. 
Sthly. A supply of salt is also necessary, of which, in the sumn— 
mer months, four pfund, and in the winter three pfund, should 
be furnished weekly to every hundred head of sheep, so that they. 
may, at least twice every week, have salt. to lick. 
9thly. ‘The rams should not be kept in the same house with 
the ewes, nor the young with the old. 
10thly. For fourteen days before the coupling season, the ram 
should he daily fed with two halbes (equal to three pfund) of 
oats, and this food should be continued, not only during the 
coupling, but for fourteen days after; and one ram will thus be 
sufficient for a flock of eighty ewes, provided great care and at- 
tention be paid to him in every other respect during the whole 
of the season. 
1lthly. During the lambing period, a shepherd must be con- 
stantly day and night in the cot, not with the view of affording 
assistance at the birth, but in order that he may place the lamb 
as soon as it is cleaned, together with the mother, in a separate 
pen, which has been before prepared. The ewes which have 
Vol. 52. No. 246. Oct. 1818. gy lambed 
