84 ON EWES. 



A. By giving them oats or barley, mixed with 

 bran, radishes, turnips, carrots, parsnips, salsifis, 

 (goat's beard) boiled peas, beans, cabbages, or 

 ground ivy, (geehoma hederacea, L.) and by driv- 

 ing them to better pastures : it is remarked, that the 

 change of pasture gives them appetite, and does them 

 much good, provided they are not taken from a good 

 to an inferior one. 



Q. At what time can ewes be milked ? 



A. When the lamb, which the ewe should nurse, 

 cannot suck, the milk is drawn from the teat for the 

 lamb to drink it : the ewes may be milked, when the 

 lambs are dead or weaned. There are German shep- 

 herds,who wean the lambs at six weeks or twomonths, 

 and afterwards milk the ewe for the whole year ; as 

 soon as the lambs can feed, there are people who sep- 

 arate them from their mothers, without weaning them, 

 altogether. In the morning, after having milked the 

 ewes, they allow the lambs to suck the little milk, 

 which remains in the teats : afterwards they remove 

 the lambs for the whole day : in the evening, they do 

 the same ; and it is said, that the little milk, which re- 

 mains at each time, with the herbage of the pastures, 

 will afford sufficient food for the lambs ; but if the 

 grass be not very nourishing, this custom may be 

 hurtful to the lambs. 



Q. What happens to the ewes, when they are 

 milked or suckled for too long a time ? 



A. The drawing off of the milk preserves them 

 from many diseases, which might arise from super- 

 abundant humours : but when it continues for too 



