CHAPTER VII 



SHEEP 



There are three systems of sheep-farming, 

 namely, keeping a permanent flock, keeping a 

 temporary flock, and buying sheep to fatten. 



A permanent flock is kept on a regular 

 sheep farm, which is usually of light land, the 

 useless ewes in the flock being replaced each 

 year by others bred on the same farm. The 

 annual produce from the flock may be either 

 sold as early fat lamb, or summer-fattened on 

 rape, or fattened on turnips and sold in the 

 following spring, or sold as summer-fat in their 

 second summer. 



Temporary flocks are kept on farms that are 

 not really adapted to sheep-farming, the land 

 being usually too heavy to carry sheep profit- 

 ably all the year round. The ewes are bought 

 in summer and put to the ram according to the 

 time lambs are wanted, the ewes being -finally 



