POINTS IN MANAGEMENT. 101 



gables, to be shut or opened as required. The bedding 

 should be taken out and dried daily, and the clean por- 

 tion returned, with the addition of a little fresh litter, after 

 the stalls have been well brushed out and dried. 



Such a shed would be sufficiently warm in the winter 

 with the shutters down, and cool in the summer with the 

 shutters up. If the closed shed is large, there should be 

 ventilators in the roof from end to end. 



By reference to the table of the ash of the blood of 

 sheep, it will be observed that 66 1 per cent, of that ash 

 is common salt. Alkaline salts are essential to its lique- 

 faction. Lumps of rock-salt should, therefore, be placed 

 in the ' corrals,' or sheds, so that sheep may have free 

 access to them. Salt is also a preventive against skin 

 diseases, leech, and hove (' sobaipe ' and ' empacho '), and 

 it renders both the male and female more fruitful. 

 Cleanliness in the food, feeding troughs, and water- 

 vessels (bebidas), and pure water, are of the highest 

 importance. 



The plan of making a loft in the ' galpon' or sheep- 

 house, wherein to store corn and fodder, is extremely 

 objectionable. On the one hand, the provender so stored 

 becomes more or less contaminated with the exhalations 

 from below, and on the other hand the lower part of the 

 building is rendered close and unwholesome. 



V. 



The physiological question of the advantages or disad- 

 vantages of in and out-breeding respectively, that is, of 

 breeding from near relations, or from perfectly distinct, or 

 far removed branches of families, is one of great impor- 

 tance, on which much has been written. The consideration 



