112 Mr. V Hommedieu on tJit Folding ef Shetp, 



Computation of Profit and Loss. 



Ploughing, fowing, and reaping the acre, . . £. i lo o 



Pulling and cutting the turnips, o ro o 



Lofs on eighty grown Iheep, at 2S. . , . . . 8 o o 



Lofs on fixty lambsj at is ..300 



Attending the flieep, 080 



£.i3 8 o 



Produce. 



Fifteen bufliels of wheat, in cafe no part had 



been winter-killed, at 8s 6 o o 



Sixty bufhels of turnips, at is. 6d. . 4 10 o 



' 10 10 © 



Lofs, . ,......*,....£. 2 iS o 



By this experiment I was convinced no advantage would 

 arife from the conflant folding of Iheep. The injury done 

 to the fheep by folding, appears to arife from a number of 

 caufes. They became very dirty by lying on ploughed 

 ground, which muft check their ufual perfpiration. Their 

 noflrils are alfo affeded by the duft which is taken in with their 

 breath, and their refpiration impeded, which with the 

 breath of fo many lying clofe together, mufli be unfavourable 

 to their health. But the principal caufe I apprehend, arifes 

 from their being prevented from feeding at pleafure, when 

 the dew is on the grafs, when it affords the greatefl nouriiliment. 

 Sheep feldom feed in the middle of the day, and drink but 

 very little, which I conclude is owing to their feeding 



