Essen/ on Sheep. lOi) 



charge a mucus from the nose. Good feeding 

 and pine boiighs, or tar and salt, administered 

 in the manner 1 have mentioned, will cure this 

 complaint. 



It is frequently asked, what quantity of Ibod, 

 either dry or green, is necessary for a given 

 number of sheep? and the inquiry is not a mere 

 matter of curiosity, but its answer very import- 

 ant to the farmer, as it enables him to adapt his 

 stock to his means of support. The British 

 writers are not so accurate on this subject as one 

 could wish, and as they generally are in what- 

 ever relates to rural economy. This is owing to 

 the manner of feeding their sheep for the most 

 part on turneps eaten on the ground, on old grass 

 fields, and only occasionally on hay. Happily, 

 however, this interesting question is answered 

 by Daubenton, a celebrated French agricultu- 

 ralist, in such a manner as to leave me nothing 

 to do but to transcribe his work. '' I confined, 

 *' in a small space, two sheep, about twenty 

 ** inches high (the height of most woolled ani- 

 ^' mals in France). By way of experiment, I 

 '* caused the sheep to be fed, during eight days, 

 " solely upon grass newly cut, and weighed be- 

 ** fore placed in their rack. Care was taken to 

 " pick up, and place in it back again, all that the 

 *' sheep let fall, and to weigh that which they 



