SKEEP. ^^^ 



u'rincringofit, and then cleanse it in running water. If this 

 water in the cauldron become too dirty, take more from that m 

 wh ch It was tirst soaked. Dry the wool in the fade not m 

 he sun ; let it then be beaten with a rod, which takes out all 

 eeds &c and softens it ; then pick it by opening it lengthwise 

 carefiilY, and card it with cotton, not witn wool cards 



Cardmc machines are not to be used for this wool, unless 



^t?S^l:n£^-r, is of the o^nionthat if the wc^Ue 

 carefully picked and carded, so as to get out most of Uie 

 dirt, and woven in this way, that it will answer without wash- 

 ing in which case less oil or greace ^^ill ^e^^^^^'^^J/, „ „v 

 Mr Daubentor, a celebrated French Agriculturalist has ob- 

 servek,that when'his sheep were fed on dry dodder during the 



winter season, many of the yo"?^,^."^! ^^,t^P,^l°J' ^which 

 he found, on opening them, the tood in the third stomach, which 

 is that which receives the food after the second chewing, to be 

 so dry as to be unfit for digestion, and to this cause he ascribes 

 their^death. This state of the stomach he concludes, is produ- 

 ced by t^e sudden change of food from g-f.^^^^^f ttVa^^^ 

 der The antidote against this, is to leed them when they are 

 firsi put to hay, with I proportion of succulent food, such as po- 

 tatoes, turnips, carrots, cabbages, rape, &c. 



Those farmers who would succeed well m raising a good 

 breed of sheep, should make it an object of par icular attention^^ 

 to adopt this practice of feeding their sheep with these kmds of 

 vegetables, especially at the setting in of winter. 



It is ver; probable that the superiority of the sheepjn Great- 

 Britain is owing altogether to their different mode oi keeping 

 S r'especialfy to their keeping them through the w^^^^^^^^^ 

 succulent food, as they do their cattle ; by "^^^^^f ^^^f ^.;^J 

 *re not stunted in their grovyth until they ^7^y.^t°/^^\^,g^, ^^ I 

 signed for them, to acquire the utmost extent of size which their 

 nature and constitution will admit. The farmers m England 

 and some of the first practical farmers in the United States, do 

 not Uiinkthey can well succeed in rearing and e^PP^rting a 

 good breed of sheep, without feeding them abundantly through 

 the winter with succulent food, such as carrots, turnips, &ic. 



