92 Domestic ANIMALS. 
after shearing—particularly the delicate Saxons. Ihave known 
forty or fifty perish out of a single flock, from one night’s 
exposure. The remedy, or rather the preventive, is to house 
them, or in default of the necessary fixtures to effect this, to 
drive them into dense forests. I presume, however, this would 
be a calamity of rare occurrence in the ‘sunny South,’ ’* 
V.—VALUE OF SHEEP TO THE FARMER. 
The following suggestive remarks are from the Country 
Gentleman, and are worthy of every reader’s attention: 
“Sheep are profitable to the farmer, not only from the pro- 
duct of wool and mutton, but from the tendency which their 
keeping has to improve and enrich his land for all agricultural 
purposes. They do this: 
“1. By the consumption of food refused by other animals in 
summer; turning waste vegetation to use, and giving rough 
and bushy pastures a smoother appearance, and in time erad- 
icating wild plants so that good grasses and white clover may 
take their place. In this respect sheep are of especial value to 
pastures on soils too steep or stony for the plow. In winter, 
the coarser parts of the hay, refused by horses and cows, are 
readily eaten by sheep, while other stock will generally eat 
most of that left by these animals. 
“For these reasons, among others, no grazing farm should be 
without at least a small flock of sheep, for it has been found 
that as large a number of cattle and horses can be kept with 
as without them, and without any injury to the farm for other 
purposes. A small flock, we said—perhaps half a dozen to 
each horse and cow would be the proper proportion. A va- 
* Sheep Husbandry ; with an Account of the Different Breeds and General 
Directions in regard to Summer and Winter Management, Breeding, and 
Treatment of Diseases. With Portraits and other Engravings. By Henry 8. 
Randall, New York: A. O. Moore. This work is bound with ‘* Youatt on 
the Sheep,” under the general title of “The Shepherd’s Own Book,” and the 
volume should be in the hands of every one who would make sheep-breeding 
his principal business. 
