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wet immediately run off; for, if he lies wet, he 

 lies cold ; and great care ought to be taken 

 that he lie dry and warm. I have fed a calf 

 that at the age of thirteen weeks has produced, 

 when flaughtered, 8/. 19J. 6d. This calf 

 weighed feventy pounds per quarter. — See An- 

 nals of Agriculture, No. 155, p. 557. 



SECTION XXX. 



life of Sheep in Improving Land: the great 

 Profit arifmg therefrom. 



SHEEP are the mod profitable of animals; 

 as they not only increafe in flefh much quicker 

 than mod others, but pay a yearly tribute to 

 the owner by their fleeces. They fupply us 

 with a ftaple commodity, which employs an 

 infinite number of people at home, and pro- 

 duces a moll beneficial trade abroad. 



Where fheep eat the herbage, they manure 

 land very regularly, and caufe the grafs to 

 come finer after than when eaten by any other 

 animal I know, except deer. 



Sheep by nature are cleaners of land. To 

 maintain themfelyes, they will eat every kind 



of 



