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much inconvenience and danger, in the men requiring a large fupply of fpirituous 

 liquors, being attacked with colds, rheumatifms, and other difeaies, but, from the 

 uncomfortablenefs of their fituation, often difpatching the bufinefs with too 

 much expedition, fo as to leave the wool infufficiently cleaned. It has been pro-. 

 pofed in the way of remedying thefe inconveniences, that a It ream or pond by a 

 little contrivance will afford the means not only of doing the work well, but with 

 comfort to the men. The method is to &quot; rail off a portion of the water for the 

 fheep to walk into by a floop mouth at one end, and to walk cut by another at the 

 other end, with a depth fufficient at one part for them to fvvim; and to pave the 

 whole: the breadth need not be more than fix or feven feet : at one fpot let in, 

 on each fide of this paffage, where the depth is juft fufficient for the water to 

 flow over the {beep s back, a cafk, either fixed or leaded, for a man to (land in dry ; 

 the fjieep being in the water between them, they wafli in perfection, and pufliing 

 them on they fvvim through the deep part, and walk out at the other mouth, 

 where there is a clean pen, or a very clean dry pafture to receive them. Of courfc 

 there is a bridge rail-way to the tubs ; and a pen at the firft mouth of the water, 

 \yhence the meep are turned into it, where they may be foaking a few minutes 

 before being driven to the wafhers.*&quot; 



Before this work commences the lambs mould be feparated from the ewes and 

 other fheep, and each placed in feparate pens. When the former arc. wafhed, it is 

 feldom neceffary to do much more than allow them to be juft fwilled through the 

 water. 



After this operation has been accomplifhed, the fheep mould be provided w ith 

 a dry clean pafture for a few days until they become perfectly dry, and are in a 

 proper ftate to be morn or clipped. 



In the former method of performing this fort of operation, it was then ftom of 

 the {hearers to perform the work lengthwise of the fheep ; and in many cafes it 

 was very indifferently executed, fo much fo, that it has been fuppofed that one or 

 two ounces of wool were left, upon the average, upon each fheep, and by that mean 

 much injury done to the following growth, as it is conceived that wool in this 

 particular has much refemblance to grafs, and &quot; will not thrive well if it be not cut 

 clofe.&quot; This imperfection in the clipping of fheep is believed to arife in a great 

 meafure from the longitudinal method of performing the operation The improv 

 ed practice is therefore to clip circularly round the body of the Iheep, by which 



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