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four shillings per stone, will make a wether of fifteen stone sell at 
£3. Two-year-old sheep generally shear from seven to nine pounds 
of wool, which is long, and pretty soft, and most of it finds its way 
to France. The present price is about £16 per pack. Lambs’ 
wool about Is. per lb. Tags, that is, young wether sheep a year 
and a half old, are sometimes fatted and sold about November, and 
will weigh ten stone and upwards. It is not customary to put fat- 
ting sheep and tags together, as you state ; but good fatting land 
will carry about eight sheep to the acre. All, however, depends 
upon the season ; and if there is a good bite, many graziers take in 
beasts belonging to their lamb-keepers, whose interest it is to keep 
the lambs pretty well upon the uplands during the winter, for it is 
impossible to keep the lambs during the winter on the marshes. 
Good tags are selling at 25s. to 30s. The tags are kept in a pretty 
good field. They are laid about seven to ten per acre. 
The marsh is certainly very cold when a north-east wind blows ; 
but I do not think that the lambs are quite so badly off as you de- 
scribe. No doubt, at all times lambs will die, and it is very pos- 
sible that many of them might be saved by shelter and attention ; 
but this year (1838) the fall has been very considerable — more sin- 
gles than twins. On last Romney Lamb Fair, 21st August, lambs 
sold very cheap, from 12s. to 18s. Most all the farmers for many 
miles around the marsh ride with the true Romney Marsh rams : 
the hire is from £2..2s. to £10.. 10s. per month. 
The ewes are distinguished as one-lamb ewes, two-lamb ewes, 
three-lamb ewes, when they are full-mouthed and turned off for the 
butcher. 
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By W. Y. 
SWALLOWING INDIGESTIBLE SUBSTANCES. 
1817, July 24:th. — Mr. D. had a spaniel, naturally lively, and 
sometimes almost annoyingly so ; but he could now scarcely be 
induced to move. He quite refused his food. Some sulphur had 
been given by the owner, which had produced sickness, the bowels 
remaining constipated. An aloetic pill was administered. 
2 5th . — The medicine had again returned by vomit, and the 
bowels had not been moved. The dog did not evince any great 
degree of pain, except when the belly was pressed upon. He then 
shrunk, and even cried ; otherwise he lay stupidly, scarcely look- 
ing up when spoken to. An injection of thin gruel with castor oil 
was administered, and two drachms of castor oil and one of syrup 
