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iiifedlon. For the difeafe called the red-water, bleeding, 

 and change of food in many parts of the county, particularly 

 in the iflands, and upon the embanked marflies, have been 

 found effectually to anfwer. When the teat cracks, and the 

 bag becomes indurated and inflamed, it is often the confe- 

 quence of high feeding, and thefe are the uniform indications 

 of approaching garget in the dug; in this cafe the cow 

 fhould be immediately blooded, her bag fhould be well 

 wadied, and anointed with hogs lard or fweet oil. The 

 teats fliould be drefled with goofe greefe, and the cow kept 

 as cool and quiet as pofTible. In a few days the bag will 

 become foft,the inflammation fubflde, and the milk gradually 

 return to its ufual purity and colour. 



SECTION II. 



-SHEEP. 



A.S there are but few breeding flocks in this county, the 

 ufual mode of flocking with flieep, is to buy ewes in 

 the months of Augull or September, to entice thofe that 

 have not already taken the ram, to be fo difpofed as early 

 as pofllble, that the Iamb may be returned fat in the fpring, 

 and the ewe fattened and fold off before the end of fummer. 



For this purpofe, the flieep generally preferred, may be 

 divided into two claflTes; the Dorfet, which begin lambing 

 about the beginning of 0(flober, and whofe Iambs are 

 ufually returned fat by the Eaftcr following; coft about 25s. 



each, 



