THE SHEPHERD'S MAKITAL. 



field will become restless, and try to escape. The best method of 

 keeping them contented and quiet, is to change their pasture as 

 soon as they are observed to wander about restlessly. They are 



Fig. 9, SHEEP SHED. 



then losing flesh. To restrict sheep to one kind of food for a 

 period of more than thirty days, has been found to seriously im- 

 pair their health. " Fresh fields and pastures new " are therefore 

 necessary to their welfare, and their health cannot be maintained 



I.! 



Fig. 10. DOG GUARD. 



. 11. DOG GUARD. 



unless this peculiarity is recognized and accommodated. It is 

 better to divide fields into paddocks where small flocks are kept, 



