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III. MANAGEMENT OF STORE SHEEP. The 

 only particular of management which is here 

 entitled to notice is, that of dreffing them in 

 autumn with tar and greafe provincially, 

 " SALVING i" the tar and greafe with which 

 they are anointed being aptly enough termed 

 falve. 



How the practice was firft introduced into 

 the Diftrict under furvey does not appear to 

 be at prefent known, though not of more 

 than fifty years (landing. It probably tra- 

 velled from the north, where 1 find it is now 

 in ufe ; not from the fouth, where I have 

 never met with the fmallefl traces of ir. 



The intention of this practice is to kill 

 lice, prevent the fcab, and make the wool 

 grow ; and another idea, I believe, is, that it 

 fortifies the fkin againft the feverity of the 

 winter's cold. 



Whether it anfwer all or any of thefe in- 

 tentions I will not aiTcrt. Whatever may be 

 its effects, it has now been the .invariable 

 practice of the Diftrict for near half a cen- 

 tury. I have not at lead met with more than 

 one man who has deviated from ir, through 

 principle. 



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