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shades round your sheep pen, so that they can retreat 

 in wet weather, which will prevent them from tak- 

 ing cold, which brings on many disorders among 

 them. 



Be particular when you shear your sheep, to put 

 them under these shades ; for that is the time when 

 they are most injured by taking cold. You should 

 pay strict attention when they are about to have lambs, 

 and feed the ewes with grain. Sheep should be fed 

 in winter with clover hay, which has been salted ; 

 and while feeding on this hay you need not give your 

 sheep any salt. 



I am of the opinion that you can improve a flock 

 of sheep as much in proportion as you can your stock 

 of cattle, and we have all seen to what extent cattle 

 have been improved. Our common steer will only 

 weigh from five to eight hundred pounds, while an 

 improved breed passed through Baltimore to Wash- 

 ington, one of which weighed four thousand pounds. 

 Two of them which passed through in March, 1838, 

 weighed four thousand each. Here then, my dear 

 readers, you see what improvement can do for cattle ; 

 and by the same judicious mode of treatment, your 

 sheep may be improved likewise. 



