290 Hungarian Agriculture, and Improvements in the 
lambed should, during a week, be driven neither to water nor 
to pasture, but low troughs of water for this purpose are to be 
introduced into each partition, in order that they may easily, 
and at all times, quench their thirst. It is also very useful to 
put a small quantity of barleymeal into the water, for by this 
means the quantity of the ewe’s milk is much ivcreased. When 
the lambs are so strong that they can eat, they are to be sepa- 
rated by degrees from their mothers, and fed with the best and 
finest hay and a few oats, being suffered at first to go to them 
only three times in each day,—early in the morning, at mid- 
day, and in the evening,—and so to continue till they can travel 
to pasture, and fully satisfy themselves. For a week they should 
then be turned in twice a-day, and for another week once a-day 
only, to the ewes, when they may be entirely weaned. At first 
it is enough if a quarter of a pfund of hay be given every day to 
each lamb, and one halbe of oats be divided amongst six—after- 
wards, and till they are driven out, half pfund of hay, and a 
halbe of oats amengst four, will be sufficient. . 
Regulations for Winter Feeding. 
‘Ist. The winter feeding should begin as soon as the cold and 
the hoar-frost prevent the growth of the grass; and if, as it often 
happens, this should be the case so early as the beginning of Oc- 
tober, it is not necessary that the sheep should, from this time 
forward, be kept constantly in the house, and receive all their 
food there, but they may in dry and clear weather (always ob- 
serving the fourth of the foregoing regulations) be driven out so 
long as the grass is not rendered unwholesome by the frost, and 
the ground is not covered with snow. During all this time, 
however, they must not he sent out empty, but before going to 
pasture must have a third part of their usual daily allowance. 
2dly. A sheep which is healthy and full grown, will require 
daily four pfund of food, which must consist of hay and straw. 
Young sheep should have one pfund less. The daily distribution 
of food is as follows. 
a. From the time when the frost begins, while .vet the sheep 
ean go abroad, each receives, in the morning, one pfund and a 
half of good straw. They are then driven to water, and then to 
the pasture, where they remain until the dew appears. 
b. From the time when the hard frost comes on, and the 
ground is covered with snow, till twénty days before dropping 
their lambs, they receive every morning at 5 o’clock, 1} pf. of 
clean straw; at 8 o’clock 4 pf. of hay; at 9 o’clock they go to 
water; at 3 o’clock again 4 pf. of good hay; at 4 o’clock they 
go again to water; and at 6 o’clock in the evening 14 pf. of 
clean straw is again given. 
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