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Farm Reports. 
These Iambs are weaned by folding on sainfoin by day and 
vetcbes at night ; the ewe-lambs clear behind them during the 
daytime, and run over two-year-old seeds at night, and as a rule 
they get no corn. About the first week in June the tup and wether 
lambs begin to get mangolds and cabbages cut up and served in 
troughs ; the rams and wethers are separated, the former being 
followed by ewe-lambs at Ugford, and the latter by draft ewes 
at Bulbridge. The details of the management are briefly as 
follows : — At 5 o'clock in the morning the ram and wether 
lambs get about 6 oz. of corn or cake on their night-fold, and in 
half an hour go on to a break of sainfoin ; about 11 o'clock they 
get cabbages and mangolds cut up in troughs, and at 5 in the 
afternoon they are given another 6 oz. of corn or cake, being sent on 
vetches for the night half an hour afterwards. About the middle 
of July, however, rape or cabbages are substituted for vetches. 
The ewe-lambs follow the ram-lambs until the wethers are sold, 
after which they run on the aftermath seeds in the daytime, and 
at night are folded on rape and turnips preceding wheat. They 
get no corn or cake, and are followed according to the system by 
the breeding ewes. The draft ewes, when dr}', follow the 
wether lambs, and get ^ lb. of corn or cake per diem until they 
are sold, which is usually in July or August. As a rule the 
wether lambs are sold on August 12th, but occasionally earlier. 
Their average weight is 16 lbs. per quarter, but individual cases 
of 20 lbs. have sometimes been recorded ; and the average price 
for the last 5 years is 36s. per head. 
About 140 ram-lambs and 20 older sheep are sold or let every 
year, the average price obtained during a series of years being 
11 guineas. 
The ewe-teggs not introduced into the breeding flock are 
wintered on the thin hill-land at Bulbridge, on mangolds and 
swedes, getting i lb. of cotton- or rape-cake per day with hay and 
straw chaff ; this treatment is continued until the middle of April, 
when they are folded in the water-meadows by day, and on 
Italian rye-grass behind the couples at night, until May 20th. 
From this date until August 1st they are kept on a down at a 
cost of 2d. each per week, being folded on bare fallow at night. 
Sheep are washed in the river, about 10 days before shearing, 
by the ordinary farm labourers, who are paid their usual wages, 
but get in addition 3 meals a day and an allowance of cider. 
Shearing is done by a travelling company at 15s. per hundred, 
wool-winders and helpers being found by Mr. Rawlence. No 
drink is given, except 1 quart of strong beer per man at night 
for supper. The fleeces of teggs weigh about G lbs., and of the 
ewes about 5 lbs. Sheep are dipped, about the end of August 
or beginning of September, in a solution of arsenic and soft soap, 
