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AGSICULTURAI. MUSEUM* 



OMNIS FEUET OMNIA TELLUS. vikG. 



Vol. I] Qeo7-getown, Ca. July 18, ISIO. [No. 2 



Five Minutes Rejledion on Sheep. 

 (Concluded from our last.) 

 A.S to the treatment of the fiock Id geucra!, the best thing 

 to be offered them is good pasturage, in this chmate from 

 about the 20th of April till the 10th of December; a little 

 sooner or later according- to the season — between which 

 periods they must have food from the racks and troughs — ■ 

 Let the racks be well stored with good hay, clover or ti- 

 mothy in preference, for them to go to at all times. From 

 the troughs give them at the rate of about a gill of Indian 

 corn a day, or its equivalent in oats, peas and the like, 

 through the winter, and in hard weather double the quan- 

 tity. Irish potatoes chopped, or passed through a cider 

 mill, IS an excellent food from the trough, and particularly 

 toward spring for the ewes that have lambs. — Turnips, 

 so much recommended in England, I consider no object 

 here ; there is difficulty too in preservmg them either in 

 the ground or out of it, through our winters ; and as to 

 folding, though I never tried it, I apprehend that it ii'ju'- g 

 sheep more than is compensated by the manure, or tht; 

 saving of food. Good hay alone, given in plenty, will car- 

 ry a flock well through the winter- If your stock is small 

 and your pastures or meadows fine and extensive, they 

 may do tolerably well, but there can be no doubt that 

 good feeding in winter is real economy, as much so as 

 putting manure and additional labour on a poor field, 

 is in Agriculture ; the produce amply pays the additional 

 trouble and expence ; the encrease of quantity and quality 

 ©f the wool; the number of the lambs I'aised, and the con- 



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