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3. Never pass suddenly from dry to green, or from green to dry 
feeding, but let the change be gradual. 
4. Take into account the nutritive qualities of the food, qualities 
which are more or less marked according to their nature, and the 
state of the weather during the vegetation of the crop. 
5. Drive the flock out as early in the day as possible, in order 
that they may not be shut up in the fold too long. 
6. During fine weather at the end of March, and during the 
months of April, May, and June, let them eat the grass which 
grows in meadows, lanes, avenues, at the skirts of woods, and on 
the fallows. These plants contain a considerable quantity of the 
water of vegetation, and are admirably suited for the animals when- 
ever they are submitted to a succulent diet, whether green or dry ; 
the} r diminish the too great proportion of organic principles in the 
blood, and augment the aqueous part. 
7. Shear as early as possible, in order to allow the wool time to 
grow again before the very hot weather comes on ; for if a long 
fleece weighs down the sheep and prevents the air from refreshing 
him, too short a fleece does not sufficiently shield him from the 
fatal effects produced by the rays of a burning sun, and from the 
sting of insects which torment and fatigue such animals. 
8. Never suffer the pastures to be lavishly consumed, or pas- 
ture the sheep on fields before they have been gleaned, unless it 
has rained and the grain has begun to ferment. 
9. During very hot weather, when the fodder plants approach 
maturity and are very heating, especially in dry seasons, the sheep 
should be pastured morning and evening on tender grass containing 
a great proportion of the water of vegetation. Vetches mixed with 
oats, and eaten until the formation of the seed, are then very proper. 
The sheep should be got into the fold by nine or ten o’clock in 
the morning, and not turned out again until four in the afternoon ; 
or they should be sheltered from the sun in shady places, folded, 
and if it is thought proper littered, in order not to lose the manure. 
In the middle of the day, sheep exposed and isolated will gather 
themselves into a corner of the fold and dung the ground un- 
evenly ; breathing a hot air loaded with electricity, and with the 
impure gas which escapes from their excrements, and seriously 
injure themselves. 
10. In all weathers take care that the sheep have pure water to 
drink. During the great heats of July and August, it will be 
well, as has been recommended by M. Delafond, to render the 
water in the troughs temperate and refreshing, by adding eight 
ounces of sulphuric acid, or four pounds of good vinegar, to every 
twenty-five gallons of water, for then the sheep are heated by 
the dryness of the air, by the grain they have gleaned, by the 
