A THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [APRIL 30, 1864, 
I know it from prac actical “ex perience. It is not only so on | extreme. ie. You h T 
our own enaos but itis ths e with gentler in a. ex some points in 
bonrhood ; y breed lambs that everybody i s glad t 
score, they were well attended to afterwards, and in 
less than two months were perfectly clean ; many of 
ich 
3 5 deficient. t i e prse 
them had cast the greater part of their wool, it be!ng | hold of; the "have no running about to seek for custo 5. of eiu the ewes p: the rams you would be more ore likely 
eek of Augus e uld breed them 
their | they bave plenty of cust he becanse the dealers, | to breed a level lot of bs, because you would bi 
the first w x when he bought es | da fein A ay and oth her ‘paola whe mac Ei hoggets or lam s | with corrected points, which you could not do Pire. 
wool grewag ain before winter,he put them to Turnips, for feeding are sure Us turn their arter ntion in the first place to | am aware that you will tell me that this is a ve difia I 
and sold them the 26t m — 1857, and never ps ar a Hoe ws o compare that with | matter I ifficult matter even in an enclosed coun 
t of sheep pay so much per ele Kaleen ako P ' upon r Od hap Ad style of breeding— in an open country il find it still more diff, 
put a ram to a ewe because it is a ram, and t wil take a great number rdles, it will require 
aoe for rer r kee m fail Atuk aih ‘in because. E po: saison anys particular erit—who | & tention, and aHogetet involve considerable trouble A 
nciusion, am iully con nvince a aud he' to get a lam Many | what great success s ever ee; iev vit 
I zt Es completely eradicated from a k ME ople 1^3 th dt, ^n rar is the result? The lamb bred from | trouble? The obj i almost all our cross-br 
t ercurial oint hen properly applied Es that careless system of breedin sure to hang upon hand; | to get as many lam can; because, looking at th 
d itl t hör risk | ms ee Lig ue ibat parta enitn lambs ; they don’t i prices of wool and mutton and corn, it omes am 
and carefully + foliated up, and that without eithe snow they are bred to sell; and t mportant consideration. My experience tells me that i 
or injury to the health of the flock. G. rray, a TE pet pies they caunot get la’ nite from other Led we want to produce plenty of se and if we desire the 
stone. "posing. however, that ee Pine Lore seil them, the| single ones to come strong anc ealthy, it is very much 
a — me p ua drm tim t of | within our own control and it is by these means—thai 
The very ac 
ds t grind have no feeding | lush your ewes two or three weeks. before the ram 
THE BREEDING AND REARING OF SHEEP. 
n ‘ Gentlemen who have fed wellbred lambs from this estate | I will answer for the result. Now I will give you myo ; 
[We sed other branches of Tarm management n shop o | have dadeed to come again and again, and they have done are prov year. Pha were rather deficient in early 
ou 2d 1 rieultnral College, Cirencester. We now | 99; every year the value of these lambs is increasing. Then | Turnips. I tupped s upon layers, some upon the park, 
irate b . T 3 Pavia 
publish s eer qa rra sli ageres — enn | as a very important one, and one which must have ae | Ee and no cà nein all Ps had 25 percent, more twi 
d tot io | fro e 
Woods, 
hetford, recently given before the Wayland Agricultura 
go Os 
ere in the lamb or the hogget season, and you seé a group of | with cake besides p" we don? t "wish to have failures with our 
Associatio on.] dia—I ú thi biect, M ople here, and a group of people there; per rhaps you see a | rams, there me or two little points upon which it has 
Mr. gor. m —In star ing upon P Gm subjec oup, butit isa rare circumstance. How ia it? There is | oce hh m to ner tp jou. this evening, Rams, in m 
may say that it is so comprehensive, an pos ains so boc lot of lambs or hogzets, and everybody is rushing to see | opinion, travel a great deal too far on our flock farms, The 
pie alter that I felt, in making an extempore them, showing that it is the exception, and not the rule, to aeq aw is, in a sera — to let v rams run with the 
d iderable difficulty to know where to begin ha "ie ape iw Bes: instead of seeing a few pens of hoggets | ewes indiscriminately. hey run with them into the fold 
address, conside y or lambs ossess far more merit than others, I wish to at night; they go out with them the next day, and they 
res T€ to end. I, therefore, consulted with T. | see them A p alike, I pu think I eve ee Il see that; thus travel a considerable distance. I think you thus 
who, with that intelligence, that readinéss to | but I do trust that we shall see a con siderable advance in the ds bone uen apu — ft I advise you 
assist, ad that kindness wit ith whi ch he always assists | breedin ots 2 poe PR Eph ca eni snis iie fields, 
his hbours, at id, and we agreed | (ood a d Ba d Breeding.—W el, we have in this home, and give him a little cake and fec fa 
to pees the matter wide the following heads :— a neighbourhood, some most extraordinary instances of quite sure you will be wel! repaid by anjalteration of your 
1. The ewes to breed from eedin ng; and I will first give — system. Again, I believe it to bea most important 
2) The rams to use; how to use them ; and when t t of the ied; and re an instance of | ws d nm ste eee been emm 
ke Li 
them to the ewes. ‘the bad. .. | when their time has elapsed ? If you go upon the principle of 
3. Treatment of ewes during pregnancy ; abortion, its causes wae have gentlemen in the neighbo our ood who breed with using red ochre at a certain period, blue ochre at an 
and effects. » "uo buy the best ewes rede ale their bands on— period, and yellow ochre afterwards, you can tell to a dead cer- 
4. Treatment of ewes uring the E season. | hrs ENS them for certaim points (which they know them to tainty how your ewes will la mab t was iato oma en ou may 
5. yer ent TENES of lambs when on the ewes, and when | possess) yA penda ood lambs. Not satisfied with É€— expect a number ot lambs, Tolda 
m they and hire or y also yc gard Pies iar to be a f considerable imp ortamcs vad T wih that 
$ Hoggets—their treatment from July to Michaelmas, i Es nd well p apted for the ewes they a itended every flockmaster paid a EU and if you adopt my 
When on mn and -— treatment thereon. ° Ba Dx ether, and Shere is no pim afa wv peus os - ‘the vai, MS 
s. Whether most profitable to sell in or out of their wool. | hatever as to what the result will be. There is no if the. fen pe a as ^e yourewes. Here let me ask do you 
Pure Breeds.—As you alt know that I have strong | ce in r Ton m Breeding good animals vt no matter of make it a rule to examine certain parts of your rams when you 
ttem pt pure-bred | buy them, or before you t i r ewes? for, 
allow 
pec Ps ihe pure T of sheep to Pes the 
M s all good crosses must s 
ui 
What dia sucks as.no man who cares. for his credit or his eps Sun 0! 
ford Downs 8 spring | ever try to fatton. ES bok: as it were, ao d a ^ 
wns” spring | ewes that he has actually got them to breed y all th 
id. He runs the rams with them all the bis matter which is very much 
you: ‘says, Hope things thay know ie the best) nator MOT by th situation V the farm upon which jin feeis 
of sheep altogether, and the which fall from me | taught t I merely give these as illustrations of two are plac — Ifa is in an enclosed country ; if he 
this ED iuE 3 nt all be made upon vr 1 eet call **the Nor! folk | systems. P well provided pe ng to ood, and is well able to carry along 
meal ire erona red aola is, as to the animals from which id His do Be beds After TN à Hà his lambs when um Gomme Wb T carly time, Vien tie 
= $ e f September; butas a gen 
next most important step is o ge et goo od r s. Iam bre NA falli see ntry. I would certainly advise 
reed from.— The ws question i one of those who fancy it is M ill-spent om o giv ar chaclmas as the best time, considering that they would 
would Mitos (he your consideration | ph Which d d follow from that time. 
a 5L. for aram. I think it is far better to give a | then drop about the 7th of March, and fo focii 
you consider the best for ewes for r breedin ik fife price then a low One g | My experi tells me that it is not always Tatere 
A | lambs that make the heaviest sheep. I cans 2 d 
eross-bred lambs? Do you think the et wes the | "Tho profit; I do believe, will be greater pon breedinegemad: 100 M pne pat ym ding ve mark 
brown- -faces, the Hampshires, or half-bred e the | lambs than bad ones, and you will never breed good lambs | the ears of lambs for the first month, and after the month has 
best tte gredi on w bos pm ? rc cai oes bree ceghe of cross | expired we have no mark at all. Now = = the" last Bir 
Ihave no doubt some gentlemen present willtell me wh peers tees s Y E e gentlemen like | worth relating at à meeting of this kind. | id to be 
they: prefer bi oitti another, Bat there is one thing upon cromed = m : dw "is Cotswold. yn or be Se mingham exhibition there was one sheep which eae Bir- 
which I think, as we pass o utlem ust agree | something of a Leicester; and Se e people Mee ege REM Hr aio hf oT uon. "ot Ao Y Sed toto an pink ye 
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with me. That point is this "that. ‘whetever kind of p A ou o» a dash of Lincoln i ini it. It is not for me to say which will ehe when 1 you that it weighed 17 stones (itn: live 
may prefer to breed from, there is very great difficulty in 
getting the sort you require. There is a gentleman in Tuis Maler ye iT 
suggestions. eoi nie then, to say that T think the adaptation | one month at least young: m the first lam 
of the rams to the ewes, - their cem dran judgment, dropped. I merely E 5 his to show you that 
ought ri rest in the disurmtie on the flo s E ho t br. Day is o" a very bad "— 
to use 
great many people ego 
paniy put likey prico P^ tated ly ind e I ded d them | h 
for it. But what I say is this— suffici i 
that is, ** ks ment e qe 
and ** Abort d 
e Sim dy is ugh N form udi par Pis nd par herd P him. His Miei causes and effect. 
EMEN cee A breast ought "- is well thrown out in Moni. and be wideand| Iam going iE eal with this as a plain at ie T 
po they breed, o! i pe "3 ore legs, There ie e thing which is | tion, The first thing, i - most fiportent t pe the 
nr enue Iam tory to say, : ei st sight of in many pure FORME o sheep—the | think, is the feeding of our sheep. I believe this d 
ay, r the reverse. The 
* portant z : ^d. re 
it isa I E ni imals ought to e $0 constru ted a tol vt ho x Br Bot gg point of our cn or 
be 
ll pay you the most money, 
ao it. I =e that ai». | phe 
a ery much 
his well snrroun 
ja hould be straight, but little arched Wet prem o pem 
he other w I should 1 "see what 
$ of mutton, 3 “and weighty. 
as any — in Pe hen I not wa see the long 
the legs, because if the a gii long upon ie legs they 
cannot (zarek Agather ‘great po important D is D see 
the kin athe atk b m ae! 
n it be finds. at that there. - m few "good 
wi t poss il ?" that pd Sai Is it right. Ms 
e see nmm 
4 that the woolis of the right gie raeter, and p of it, and 
erit, tupped by Hr ies Er upon the refuse food of the hogge m rd My ot 
this is a difficult question ; but. 1 Beliova. that it yd ditam of ae yon get ask Ste bluo, bu Hise ting te nids cherry hue ers ig that it is um part f barbarous cus p^ 
this county ey once to set the example, and say they would Mind aio took, satay tock: which ilg bi A nows must propagate one, I do believe that by i the ewes 
only have ewes which possessed the merit necessary for the we gets, they noi bui Bact amount 
How t | but "they take "ps. a gm at mount of v ail, 3 
a theo bat Tm oing to Me mare!) irritant so she bower MY e mods 
arvis Sip g dem HÀ din "A you Soo to E e | is probably produced by two causes, pede 
nsider rams | of the pre; — of wi ewes. ee and the, 
between f Jenn 
We Rud semitas of those gentlemen who do breed Su by 
prod 
"is S inia Pre 
then, 
hose very good lambs 2i "A guineas x one ram, 10 le stimilating 5 l 
an rus, and causes it to expe 
ASE. 
n m 
following 
Jobs, they always 
I will go 
ae ae 
try ca re i bens gta o s 
properties, bee the Oed p I pres now for a positive fact. | them, and continue that for two or three weeks afterwerds 
there is another point which bas frequently struck me | and gave t hom certa. quantity of cake, and one lot upon 
to bre urn them with you! 
y bull as endeavour “to breed good | depend upon it, if a certain peculiar construction of his géne- 
NS tbe ym 285. toi is this: those rative organs, which is, or ought to be, ma nee 
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urpose. I can only venture to make | weight. That wether shad h o ear mark, proving that in was 
Michaelmas 
em. But I hav E of m ith ri tto AE 
ort of ram dang’ r think onght to be ured ators spe Treatment of Ei ring Pregnancy. Now. vich, 
according to the demand. veles Ps Viti Pe - sbred lambs. T have an idea thathe | coming To another nortan oen and aya! yn 
ve ewes, and, ‘consequently, ite  peculia o say, he ery 
I think, must ih e ion 0 of e eae 
i during > pregnaney 
ffect.” 
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