JUNE. 3/7 



SHEEP. 



In this month, the flocks of stock sheep are re- 

 gularly managed : they live on the commons and 

 sheep-walks, with, little change or trouble. The 

 stock intended for fatting, such, for instance, as 

 wethers hought in April or May, and intended to 

 be sold fat from turnips or cabbages the following 

 winter, should be well kept. 



WASH AND SHEAR SHEEP. 

 The first object in this work is to provide a con- 

 venient place for washing. It is common for men 

 to stand in the water for it, by which they some- 

 times get bad colds and rheumatic complaints, and 

 must besides be well supplied with gin : so disa- 

 greeably situated, they hurry over the work, and 

 the wool suffers ; a stream or pond offers the re- 

 quisite opportunity for doing it well, and at the 

 same time comfortably to the men. Rail off a por- 

 tion of the water for the sheep to walk into by a 

 sloped mouth at one end, and to walk out by ano- 

 ther at the other end, with a depth sufficient at 

 one part for them to swim ; pave the whole : the 

 breadth need not be mor<j than six or seven feet ; 

 at one spot let in on each side of this passage, 

 where the depth is just sufficient for the water to 

 flow over the sheep's back, a cask either fixed or 

 leaded, for a man to sta-id in dry ; the sheep being 

 in the* water between them, they wash in perfection, 

 and pushing them on, they swim through the deep 



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