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in Winter, giving it them Morning and Nighr. Put your Stable Horfes 

 to Grafs, from May to July, which will cleanfe their Bodies, and cure 

 their Feet and Legs of Dil'eafes contrafted by Itanding in the Stable all 

 Winter: Rain, River and Spring Water, are belt for Horfes and other 

 Cattle, much better than Pond- Water, 



As for Sheep, any diforder wounds their Health, if they are driven too 

 hard, or courfed with a Dog, or the like, if they be fuffered to lye down 

 whillt hot, and this being done often, they will break out with the Scab, 

 or Mange : When about Michaebias you put them into frefh Paftures, if 

 they are clofe Folded it will do the fame: If in hot Weather they be 

 often removed from place to place, it will hinder them from Thriving,, 

 and make them Scabby, much Wet likewifc makes them Rot. In the 

 Morning betimes, drive your Sheep into Fallow Fields or Downes, where 

 Grafs is fcarce, and take no notice of the Situation of the Field 5 then^ 

 walk your Sheep gently on the drieft and higheft Parts ^ if there be Corn 

 Fields, let them feed about two or three Hours by the Hedges. -About 

 Eleven a Clock, turn them from the Edges of the Corn-Fields or Pafturage, 

 into the loweft Clay -ground or Valleys you have, and let them lye at eafe, 

 and as Mattering as you can: Ufe them at all times tenderly, and leis 

 Food will ferve 5 obferve this Method from May till Juguft, if the Wea- 

 ther continue warm, and it will prevent Scab and Mange, when they come 

 into frefh Pafture. In May or June^ I think is the beft time for Shearing. 

 If the Summer proves wet about Jujte or jfidy^ let your Sheep continue 

 in the Fold till Eight in the Morning, if the Morning be moilt j and 

 again, let them be folded before the Dew falls ; Obferve thefe Rules, and 

 you will prevent many Difeafes, as Choler, Flegm, Stoppages, Red- Water, 

 Coughs, Pains in the Joints, Lamenefs, and the like: You ought to be 

 moft careful of Sheep from Midfwnmer till Michaelmas. Therefore keep 

 your Sheep till Nine a Clock, or till the Sun have dried the moiit Vapours 

 and Humidity from the Earth, and then let them out, and keep them on 

 the high and dry grounds; if the Day prove dry, feed them three Hours 

 in lower Grounds, and about Evening put them in higher places, 

 and be fure Fold them before the Dew talis, and Fold them on dry 

 Ground ^ from July to September ^ Sheep are molt fubjed to Rot, and is 

 occafioned chiefly by too much Moifture at the Seafon, and not from 

 licking up Snails, ^c. which I omit for Brevity. 



If wet Weather happen about July^ ^ugnji, or September^ or when it is 

 generally a wet Summer, and continues till Michaelmas^ a Rot is greatly 

 to be feared. In wet Weather, give your Sheep Hay at Night and Morn- 

 ing, or give them three times a Week Oats, or other Grain, mixing a 

 little Salt with it, and this will prevent the Rot: Low wide Houles like 

 Barns open on all fides to Houfe Sheep in wet Weather, preferves them 

 from Rot ; this is a general Rule in Flanders, Thofe iha.t live where the- 



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