42 PASTURING OF SHEEP. 



which produces nearly the same effect in the evening, 

 as in the morning. 



Q. Do sheep eat noxious or hurtful herbs ? 



A. They do not of themselves eat such herbage, 

 which, if put into their rack, they will often remain a 

 whole day near, without touching it, although they 

 may have had no other food : this proof has been 

 many times given, in a sheep fold, near Montbard. 

 But there are herbs, which have good qualities in 

 themselves, and which sheep eat with avidity, but 

 which, in certain circumstances, do them great injury. 



Q. What good herbage is there, which may be in- 

 jurious to sheep ? 



A. *Trefoil(l), lucerne (2), wheat (3), rye (4), 

 barley (5), mustard (6), poppy (7), and in general, 

 all such herbage, as sheep eat with the most avidity, 

 or which are too succulent ; such as are too tender 

 and watery, like the after grasses, and such as are 

 found in wet furrows, or under the shade of trees ; or 

 full grown grasses, when full of dew, or water from 

 cold rains. 



Q. How does such herbage prove injurious to 

 sheep ? 



A. When herbage of the above description is tak- 

 en, in too large quantities, into the paunch, it inflates 

 it, so as to make the animal fuller than he should be, 

 and gives him the colick of the paunch; called in 



* (1) Trifolium, L. (2) Medicago saliva, L. (3) Triticum hybern- 

 um, L. (4) Secale cereale hybernum, (5) Hordeum vulgure, L. (6) Si- 

 napis arvensis, L. (7) Papaver Rhreas, L. 



