Live Stock. Sheep* Weanhig Lambs Selling of Lamb- Stock. 



The weaning of the lambs is a bufmefs that mould be attended to fr&amp;gt;me time in 

 the courfe of July, but it is accomplifhed more early in fome diftricts than others. 

 In order to effect this in the be ft and moft advantageous manner, a proper rcferve 

 of fome frcfh pafture grafs, where there may be a good bite for the lambs to feed 

 upon, fhould be made. It is of much confequence that an ample provifion of this 

 nature be hud, in order that the growth of this young flock mav not iurTer any 

 check on being taken from the mother. Same advife clover in blotTbm as the T.oft 

 forcing fort of food in this intention. And faintfoin rouen is highly valuable for 

 the fame purpofe. The ewes mould be removed to fuch diftant paftures or other 

 places as that they cannot be heard by the lambs, and thereby caufethem to bedif- 

 turbed in their feeding. And where the ewes fuftain any inconvenience from 

 their milk, it mould be drawn once or twice, as by this means difeafe may be pre 

 vented*. After the lambs have been removed, the ewes are returned to the fitua- 

 tions deftined for their fummer fupport. 



As it is necefTury in the common management of fheep-ftocks to remove a cer 

 tain number of the crones or old ewes annually, and replace them by the beft lambs, 

 in order to keep them up in the greateft perfection, it is of confiderable importance 

 to have the bufinefs performed in a proper manner. In moft of the fheep-diftricts 

 in the fouthern parts of the kingdom, this fclection or fetting of lamb-ftock is ufu- 

 ally made about the month of Auguft, when the fairs for the fale of lambs moftly 

 take place. And as the whole are then collected for drawing into different lots 

 it may be a very fuitable period for felecting thofe that are to fupply fuch defici 

 encies in the breeding ftocks. It is obferved by Mr. Young in his excellent Ca 

 lendar of Hufbandry, that cf in making this felection the farmer or his fhepherd 

 ufually (whatever the breed may be) rejects all that manifeft any departure from 

 certain figns of the true breed j thus, in a Norfolk flock, a white leg, and a face not 

 of a hue fufficiently dark, would be excluded, however well formed j in the fame 

 manner a white face, on the South Downs ; in Wiltfhire, a black face, would bean 

 exclufion, or a horn that does not fall back ; in Dorfetihire, a horn that does not 



* It is obferved in the Northumberland Report, that {&amp;lt; when this pra&amp;lt;Sbice,as was ufual, is continued 

 to eight or ten weeks, it becomes very detrimental, keeps the ewes lean, and ill prepared for meeting 

 the feverities of winter. 



&quot; This cuftom has been long difufed by the intelligent farmers in the lower diftri&s ; and much 

 laid aiide by the moft confiderable hill farmers. Tbe profit of milking ewes for fix or eighe week* is 

 elHmated at 8d. per ewe; and it is generally agreed they are ilecreafed in ralu at lead Is. 6&amp;lt;1. per 

 head ; of courfe there is a lofs about Is. par head by milking. la one inftance of milking loug-woolled 

 * vc, there was a lofs of at lealt 3s. per head.&quot; 



