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their rooting, tumbling, and mixing the 

 litter and dung. 



The fliecpyard for driving the flock into 

 in bad weather, is highly neceflary. 



There are many very confiderable farms 

 With large flocks of fheep, that have no 

 convenience of this nature, and yet I cannot 

 but confider it as indifpenfable. No' perfon 

 can have been attentive to the management 

 of fheep, without remarking the evils they 

 are fubjedl to in wet, ftormy weather, deep 

 fnows, &c. &c. many are the lambs which 

 are loft at fuch times for want of proper 

 fhelter. Indeed, it muft be confiftent with 

 every one's reafon, to fuppofe the advan- 

 tages of having their flieep warmly and 

 fafely lodged, inftead of their being expoled 

 to all the injuries of the moft deftrudive 

 and violent feafons ; for, without carrying 

 the matter to the life and death of the 

 lambs, we may fafely affert the importance 

 of being thus fecured, to their health, 

 ftrength, and growth. 



Giving the fheep hay fcattered about the 

 fields, though it is in moveable racks, is a 

 work of no fmall trouble and wafte ; but in 



a yard, 

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