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the eggs which they lay in the meat, that the worms 

 originate. 



The smoke should be regularly kept up until the 

 meat stops dripping ; when it should be slackened. 

 This process of curing bacon, I know to be good ; for 

 I have tried it many years, and never knew it to fail, 

 while my neighbors were complaining every year of 

 spoiled bacon. 



ON THE 



MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP. 



You should endeavor, in purchasing a flock of 

 sheep, to get them in good health and sound ; for one 

 bad sheep injures the whole flock. Pasture your 

 sheep in the dryest pasture you can obtain, which 

 should be changed for another of the same kind, 

 whenever practicable; $nd have the sheep penned 

 every night in a dry pound well littered, and give 

 them some salt once or twice a week. Give them . 

 about a gill of beans, or corn ; one quart of potatoes, 

 turnips or some kind of vegetable matter that will be 

 of much nutriment, and that will cause your sheep to 

 improve in flesh and wool. This treatment will ren- 

 der them gentle and docile ; and in the summer you 

 should pasture your sheep in the woods, if not too 



thick with undergrowth. Be sure to have some 

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