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the greatest care and attention on the part of the shepherd. 
Those ewes which are nearest to lambing are brought every night 
into the stack-yard, or some sheltered part of the homestead, and 
are served with cut turnips. The ewe and her produce run 
together upon the summer pastures of clover, &c. until the middle 
or end of July, when the lambs are weaned. Great losses are 
ajit to take place among the lambs at this time. Nothing is found 
to be a better weaning pasture for young lambs than the after- 
math of either sainfoin or clover. 
The management of the lambs, or hogs as they now begin to be 
called, is various. They, whose object it is to bring them to early 
maturity, commence the forcing system immediately. First, as 
soon as possible after the weaning they are put upon rape, after 
that they are taken to turnips, which turnips are cut for them 
and put into troughs ; and in addition to this an allowance is 
made to each hog of J lb. of oil-cake or a pint of barley a 
day. 
This sort of forcing cannot be said to be in general usage : it 
involves a little more capital and rather more confidence in 
results than falls to the lot of the majority of farmers ; yet it has 
been strongly contended that it is a profitable system — that the 
outlay in oil-cake, &c., if not recoverable in the market-price of 
the animal, never fads to show itself in the succeeding crop of 
corn — that if the Wolds are to be cultivated at all, they cannot be 
profitably farmed unless under such high culture. In such cases 
the wether-hogs attain to a weight at shearing time averaging as 
much as 22 lbs. a quarter, and are then sold to the butcher. But 
those who prefer the simpler routine are content to give their 
wether-hogs turnips only, and by this means they are kept in a thriv- 
ing growing condition, and are held over the succeeding summer 
ready for the autumnal fairs, of which there are three in the 
neighbourhood, viz. Market Weighton, Sept. 25 ; Malton, Oct. 
11 ; and Pocklington, Nov. 8. Of late years not so many sheep 
have been exhibited at these fairs as was formerly the case ; they 
have found their way from time to time, when fat, to the stock- 
markets of the West Riding ; the facilities of locomotion have, in 
great measure, effected this. 
Cattle. — Although the subject of cattle cannot be said to belong 
exclusively to the section of the Riding we are now treating of, 
yet it will be more convenient to treat of it here. 
In Mr. Strickland's time, "the Holderness or short-horned 
breed, remarkable for their large size and abundant supply of 
milk," were said to prevail universally throughout the East 
Riding. This breed of cattle does not seem to have been indi- 
genous, but to have been introduced at some early period from 
