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In wetfeafonS;, to guard againft the rot, len 

 there be plenty of grafs in your pafturcs, and 

 fuffer no horfes to feed among the fheep. 



Sheep never contradb the rot in frofty wea- 

 ther. If the rot were owing only to wet, it 

 would attack fheep more frequently in winter 

 than fummer: but they never contraft it after 

 the froft fets in. It generally makes its ap- 

 pearance about the latter end of June. 



There have been inftances of the rot taking 

 Iheep at Chriftmas : but it has been in a feafon 

 remarkably open and wet. Mod open commons 

 will rot (heep: they have deftroyed thoufandsi 

 whereas, had they been enclofed and cultivated^ 

 they would have been of public advantage. 



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