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rous, and when the Airis moift, or too rmich w£t 
happen?, *tis prejudicial to them ; for this reafon they 
can for bear Water longer than many other Creatures. 
Sheep cannot endure any kind of Extreams with- 
out prejudice, lb that if they are drove too hard when 
the iveachet is hot, or be courred by a Dog, ot if their 
Keepers fuffer ’em to lie down when they are hot,and 
this be done often, it will make ’em break out with 
Scabs or'Mange when they go into frefh Pafturage, 
or about MkhaelmM. Likewifd if they are folded too 
clofe, it willoccafion the fame Diftemper : Or if in 
Summer time and hot weather the Shepherd moves 
’em too often out of one place into another, efpecial- 
ly in the heat of the Day, it will keep ’em from thri- 
ving, and alfo occaiion the fame Diftemper. 
So likewife much Wet will rot ’em, for which rea- 
fon Shepherds ought to be skilful Men, to preferve 
this Creature. 
Let Shepherds, in dry'Summers, who keep them 
in fallow Fields or on Downs, when Grafs is fcarce, 
and they have no keeping for them but what thofe 
miferable Commons afford, turn their Sheep out be- 
times in the Morning, for then is the Air moift, cool- 
ing, and refrefhing. 
. Mini the Situation of your Fields, and in the Mor- 
ning walk ’em gently on thehrgheft and dryeft parts* 
Or if there be Corn-fields or moift Pafturage, feed 
them on the edges thereof for 3 or 4 hours till they 
begin to be weary, and the heat of the Day comes on, 
but be fure ufe no Violence to ’em, for that will do 
more harm than good. About ten or eleven a-C!ock 
turn’em from the edges of fuch Pafturage or Corn- 
Fields into the Valleys or Clay-ground, as the place 
does afford, and there let ’em lie at large, and at the 
greateft eafe you can, To the lefs Food they will want. 
This Method oblerve from the latter end of May to 
Sluguft, if hot and dry weather laftfo long, for it 
will prevent Scab and Mange towards Awhaeln?M 3 
or when they come to freftj Pafturage. 
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