100 FEBRUARY. 



LAMBING. 



The flock will probably begin to lamb in this 

 month, and there is no business on a farm that 

 demands more care, attention and assiduity. As 

 soon as the farmer looks for the ewes beginning to 

 lamb, they ought every night to be folded in the 

 standing littered fold, on one side of which there 

 vshould be a small cottage- hut, built to be warm, 

 with a chimmey, and stove for heating milk, and 

 a bed for the shepherd to lie down upon. Here he 

 is to sleep through the lambing season, that he 

 may be ready to watch, assist, and tend, any ewes 

 that he sees very near lambing, and if necessary, to 

 give the lamb some warm cow's milk. Some of the 

 considerable Norfolk farmers have these huts on 

 four wheels, to draw about with the flock, wherever 

 they may be ; but to have one littered and well- 

 sheltered standing-fold, on a moderate farm, and 

 two or three conveniently placed on a large one,' to 

 take the flock to, without any distant driving, is far 

 preferable to that method. 



SHEEP IN ROUEN. 



Upon enclosed farms, where the reverse of rouen 

 may be supposed to be much greater than is gene- 

 rally possible on flock-farms, the sheep, as they 

 drop their lambs, should be drawn from the flock 

 of ewes, and put to this food, upon which an en- 

 tire reliance may be had : and let it be remembered, 

 that all turnips should be consumed this month, 



which 



