6&amp;lt;)0 Livestock. Sheep Regulating Stock ofDown Kind. 



Arid as this is not only the proper period of filling up the deficiencies in the 

 ewe- flock, but alfo for increafingordiminifhing the quantity of flock, by referving 

 a larger or fmaller number than that of the old ftieep which are difpofed of, it is a 

 matter that demands particular attention. The following ufeful directions arc 

 given in the fame intelligent work: &quot; On a farm with a given flationaryfheep-walk, 

 it is probably regulated by circum dances that rarely change,; but, on inclofed 

 farms, where the fheep are fupported by .fields alternately in grafs and tillage, 

 -.variations may eafily befuppofed, and the queftion of hard -or light (locking, that 

 is, of clofe feeding or a head of grafs, then comes in to decide the number kept. 

 If the produce or profit per head is looked to, the conduct to be purfued is evidently 

 to flock lightly ; but if the return is looked for in corn from fields laid down for 

 refrefhment by refl, then clofe feeding is a very material point, and the number 

 kept will depend on it. With all the grafles, &c. that do not decline from age, 

 the more fheep you keep the more you may keep, and the more corn you will 

 reap when fuch are ploughed ; a circumftance too important to be forgotten. But 

 the young farmer will remember, that upon this fyflem .he mufl not have a jhow 

 flock, or let the vanity of a farm have the leaft influence with him : if in this way 

 !he will have fomething to talk of, a fcore or two of pampered favourites, the. fewer 

 , the better, for they may coft him more than they are worth. * 



After this bufmefs has been properly executed, the ewe and wether-lambs 

 which remain are ufually fent to the neighbouring lamb-fairs to be difpofed of. 

 But where the fairs for this purpofe. happen later than this period, as in the begin 

 ning or latter end of September, as is the cafe in fome places, Mr. Young advifes 

 that &quot; great care be taken to keep them in forcing food, as in fpring-tares early-fown 

 rape, good grafs of the right degree of bite, &c. &c. in order to promote their 

 growth .and increafe their value ; but to fell in Aiigufl is more beneficial.&quot; 



Jn the down and mountain fheep there is fome difference in the management 

 from that of thofe on the. inclofed lands, though the fame attention in the felecting 

 and chooijngof the breeding and ram flock is now moflly practifed with the better 

 jind more enlightened fheep-farmers in fuch diflricts. 



In the former fituations they are perfectly aware that, befides the improvement 



of their tillage lands, their fheep can be rendered of confiderably more value ; a 



.circumftance .which has had the happiefl effects in promoting improvements in this 



department of hulbandry. The chief difference in the method of keeping them, 



.is in their being turned upon the downs, heaths, or commons, as early as poflible iu 



