450 
Farming of Cormcall. 
the spring: season ; but it sometimes happens, from the scarcity 
of food — the general consequence of bad farming or overstocking 
— that this is not attended to ; and the difference produced in the 
Aveight of wool only — on sheep of the same breed kept in diffe- 
rent ways — is as much as 25 per cent.* The principal disease 
to which our sheep are liable is scouring, which is referable to 
deficiency of food at one time, and excess of it at another. 
75. Cattle. — The breeding and rearing of cattle forms no in- 
considerable item in the agricultural economy of the county. A 
rough estimate of the number bred annually has been made by 
Sir Charles Lemon, by calculating the number of hides tanned 
in 1839, and the number exported and imported, which the 
writer is permitted to make use of. The result is as follows : — 
Store cattle, sold to the eastern dealers, £. 
averaging from 5j to 6 cwt. each . 3,500 at 10/. . 35,000 
Fat cattle ' ditto ditto . . 1,200 at 15/. . 18,000 
Cattle killed in the county . . . . 15,950 at 15/. . 239,250 
Calves ditto ditto. . . . 11,550 at 25*. . 14,437 
32,200 head . . 306,687 
There are also some fat cows and a bull 
occasionally imported, which may be 
estimated a't 900 bead . . 10,800 
31 ,300 head . . £295,887 
The original breed are of a black colour, but few only of these 
are found at present : the Devons are now the prevailing breed. 
' Sheep are \ery rarely turned on the turnips without being hurdled ; 
the general practice is to cart the roots on the arishes or pastures intended 
to be broken next in rotation for turnips, besides which, a little hay, and 
sometimes barley and oats, is afiForded them during the severe weather by 
the best farmers. We are aware of but two instances of feeding sheep 
under sheds, practised by Mr. Snell of Wayton, Landulph, and by Mr. 
Lawry of Tregarton, Gorran. 
Mr. Snell s shed is 70 feet long, 12 feet wide, having a yard attached 
about 50 feet by 20 feet. This will contain 50 sheep. They are fed three 
times a day with sliced turnips, in a manger placed against the inner w'all 
the whole length of the shed. The yard and shed are prepared by laying 
down during the summer 6 inches of earth (sand is used by Mr. Lawrj ), 
and upon that are placed hedge parings (which are cut, ricked', and thatched 
for the purpose) and stubble, so that when the sheep are first introduced, 
there is a bed about 1 foot in depth, and upon which is afterwards daily 
laid straw or hedge parings from the rick. When the bed becomes incon- 
veniently high for the manger, it is removed, and a fresh one applied. Mr. 
Snell adds, " I have not found my sheep kept in this manner more liable 
to disease than others, except \he foot-rot, which was easily prevented by 
carting a quantity of earth in the form of a mound in the centre of the 
yard, upon which were occasionally strewed small quantities of slaked 
lime, and this simple remedy has ever since entirely prevented the disease." 
