;6&quot;rJ! Lite Stock. S/ne/) *~La mbln g Ewes Uft of Turnips j or, 



with much profit and advantage in many fituations where early grafs-lamb is in 

 great demand. It is ufual for the rams to remain with the ewes fora month or 

 Jix weeks, and in fomc cafes longer, in order to complete the bufmcfs of impreg 

 nation, which in fomc di ft nets is afcertained by fmcaring \hc fore-bows of the 

 rams with reddle, ochre, or ibrnc fimilar fubftance that has the property of mark 

 ing.* 



During the time the ewes are in lamb, they fhould be kept in the paftures, and 

 as free from dilturbance as poiTible, and be carefully attended to, in order to pre 

 vent accidents which are liable to take place at this time, fuch as thofe of their 

 being caft in the furrows without the means of getting up again. In cafe any of the 

 ewes fhould flip their lambs, they fhould be immediately removed from theflock.f 

 They require, as is the cafe with all other forts of live flock in fimilar circum- 

 ftanccs, to be kept as well as the nature of the farm will admit, in order that there 

 may be lefs lofs at lambing-time from the ewes being ftronger, and the lambs 

 more healthy, and better capable of contending with the ftate of the feafon at 

 which they may be dropped. Where paftures or other forts of good grafs-lands 

 cannot be referved for their fupport, turnips or other kinds of green food mould 

 be provided for the purpofe, and given them in a fuitable manner ; but where it 

 can be done, it is always better to leave this fort of food untouched till about the 

 period of lambing, when it mould be regularly fupplied in proportion to the ne- 

 cefiity there may be. The ewes at this time alfo demand confiderable care 

 being taken to fee that they are put upon a dry fheltered pafture free from difturb- 

 ance, and that neither they or their lambs fuftain injury from the feverity of the 

 feafon. Whenever this is the cafe, they fhouJd be carefully removed into a proper 

 degree of warmth and fhelter until refTored. It is likewife a neceflary as well as 

 ufeful practice, as they lamb down, to take them and their lambs away from the 

 common ftock, putting them into a piece of turnips or frefh dry pafture where 

 there is fhelter when neceflary, as by this means much fewer lambs will be loft. 

 By the proper fupply of turnips at this period, the milk of the ewes is much 

 increafed, and the growth of the lambs greatly promoted j which is of much con- 

 fequence, as when they areftinted at this early period they never turn out 4 fo well 

 afterwards. 



In the ufe of this fort of food, where the foil is not fufficiently dry to admit the 

 fheep, it is the beft practice to draw the turnips and convey them to a found, firrr&amp;gt; 



* Synopfis of Hufbandry, + Ibid, 



