580 Cultivation of Grafs Land.~~Houfi Lamb Suckling-* Ewes proper fcr. 



breadth, with three or more coops or divifion of different fixes at each of the ends, 

 for feparating the lambs according to their ages, is fufficient for containing and 

 conducting the bufinefs of from one hundred and fixty to one hundred and eighty 

 lambs. That the lambs may be enabled to find their mothers with facility, the 

 cues, when they are feparated from them, fhould be kept apart by deal hurdles 

 in the middle of the houfe, fo that they may be convenient for the lambs in the 

 coops at the ends.* 



After thefe arangements have been made, a fuitable breed of ewes for the pur- 

 pofe fhould be provided. The molt early ewes of the Dorfetmire breed are the 

 mo ft proper for this management. And there is another circumftance, that de 

 mands fome attention in this fyftem of fattening, which is that of having ftich ewes 

 as produce lambs that die of a fine white colour in the flefh, or what the butchers 

 term fair. 



The ewes, after being provided with due attention to thefe circumftances, are 

 to be carefully kept during the day-time in a warm pafture, and houfed in the 

 night. They mould be fed with brewers grains and good green rouen hay, where 



Irifh bullock 



killed 

 March 21, 1789. 



Highland Scot, 



killed 

 Nov. 23, 1790. 



Home bred heifer, 



killed 

 March 26, 1791. 



An ox 



killed 



April 1790. 



Norfolk fheep 



killed 



April 17PO. 

 SouthDown flieep 



killed. 



Ditto killed 



Jan. 5, 1791. 



Weight alive 

 Weight alive 



Weight alive 

 Weight alive 



Weight alive 



Weight alive 

 Weight alive 



CATTLE. 



Stones. Ibs. 



92 o 



81 



67 



103 



Dead weight 



Hide 



Tallow 



Dead weight 



Tallow 



Hide 



Dead weight 



Hide 



Tallow 



Dead weight 

 Hide 

 Tallow &amp;lt; 



SHEEP. 



10 4 Dead weight 



14 5 

 14 2 



Dead weight 

 Tallow 

 Dead weight 

 Tallow 



Stones. Ibs. 

 48 1 



6 10 



3 7 



44 



4 8 



5 4 



35 13 

 4 4 

 3 7 



64- 10 



6 10 

 6 13 



5 8 



7 31 



i t 



7 a 



7 



* Middlefex Corre&ed Agricultural Report. 



