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the perfection in which it retains its natural oily mois- 

 ture, the more valuable will it prove both to the errowet 

 and the manufacturer. 



(101.) Weaning, where milking is not practised, 

 ought to be set about in the end of July or beginning 

 of August. In some places the ewe lambs are never 

 speaned, but allowed to go at large with their mothers ; 

 and though by this plan the dam is apt to be kept in 

 poor condition, yet is this counterbalanced by the com- 

 parative freedom of the hogs from braxy. As an 

 improvement, however, the gimraer lambs may be 

 ithheld for a fortnight from their mothers, and at the 



d of that time may be permitted to pasture with 

 hem. In the few places where the farmer continues 

 to manufacture ewe-milk cheese and butter, speaning 

 is carried into effect somewhat earlier, and is of course 

 attended, in the long run, with no little detriment to the 

 stock and its proprietor. The sooner that the practice 



laid aside the better ; for though ewe-milk cheese is 



tty universally relished and admired, yet those who 

 are acquainted with the scenes which happen at the 

 bughts, know well that the cheese itself cannot but 

 contain much, the mere mention of which would pall 

 at once the appetite even of the least fastidious. In 

 addition to this, a great waste of grass is occasioned 

 by the sheep going to and from the bught, while the 

 inconveniences they are on every hand exposed to, at 

 a season when they are peculiarly liable to disease and 

 accident, ought of themselves to lead to the abolition 

 of the practice. 



When the udders of the ewes appear, after their 

 paration from the lauibs, to be much distended, they 



