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a feverish state. Water should be given to them if the weather 
be hot. Those who wish to get a few lambs very forward for any 
particular purpose, may give them some early cabbage or green 
tares upon the clovers, or indeed it would pay in a general way 
to keep the wether lambs well, if it is intended to get them fat for 
the butcher the following spring ; they will get very fat if mannged 
in this way. It is also very advisable to shift lambs about (I am now 
alluding to the general flock) from one pasture to another, and 
not let them remain for more than a week or ten days at a time 
in any one place ; by so doing they keep more healthy, and are 
less liable to scour. 
It is a great advantage to the joung lambs to get them to either 
cabbages or turnips early in the autumn, as they will winter much 
better by getting used to their food before the wet cold weather 
sets in, and some dry food should always be given to them at this 
time, until at least they have sufficiently taken to the food upon 
which they are to remain for some time. jNIalt-comb, or clover 
hay cut into chaff are excellent for the purpose, and much better, 
I think, than corn so early in the season, as the roots early in the 
autumn are in a succulent state and very feeding. If corn and 
cake are intended to be used for the lambs, they ought not to be 
given to them until after Christmas. Cabbages planted out in 
April or INIay are the best food to make lambs fat that I ever met 
with: but they are an expensive root, and would scarcely pay any- 
one to grow for sheep in a general way, to give them any quantity 
of them, or to be penned upon them (it would answer, as before 
observed, to have a small quantity to throw to them on the clover 
leys), unless the land is adapted to their growth, as they exhaust 
it very much. 
where cabbages are not used, I consider white turnips the best 
food for lambs in the months of September and October, provided 
they are not too old, and much preferable to Swedes, which I 
think too strong at this season of the year for the delicate consti- 
tution of the young lamb. The white turnips should be cut, as 
the expense is but trifling over the old method. Now that we 
have in general use Gardner's excellent machine, the work, if 
done by boys, would not exceed the common expense of pecking, 
nor be more than about one halfpenny per head per week. In 
the year 1834, being Sesirous to test the equalities of the while 
turnips with the Swede, I selected a lot of lambs, weighed them 
on the 11th of October, and put part of them in a pen, and fed 
them with cut white turnips in troughs : the otheis were penned, 
and had cut swedes given to them. They were weighed again 
on the 8th of ^"Jovember, and the result was found to be as 
follows : — 
