In consequence of eating succulent plants, with all those of short or middling wools, 
and particularly clover, beasts are apt to For severe and mountainous moors, the! 
swell greatly and very dangerously, in which black-faced and coarse-wooled Scotch sheep 
case, driving them about with great rapidi- are by far to be preferred, being able to 
ty is often practised with success, though a sustain the most rigorous weather, and to 
still more elfectual method is to stab them live on the most scanty food. Instead of 
between the ribs and hip bone to the depth putting sheep, after the above-mentioned 
of about fohr inches. A flexible tube has purchases, to the highest feed, and pushing 
also been frequently passed through the them to perfect fattening, the better way 
mouth into the gullet, by which the air, is to keep them tolerably well till March, 
which causes this disease, is easily dis- and to begin then to fatten them, by which 
charged. method they will be fit for sale at a season 
The practice of stall-feeding, or keeping of mpre advanced price ; and upon this plan 
the cattle in the house at every season of the purchase money is’, with good manage- 
the year, and feeding them, when practi- ment, generally doubled, and the fleece 
cable, with green food, where there is found an additional clear advantage. What- 
abundant litter, is considered by excellent ever be the nature of the stock, towards 
judges as the best method of turning to ac- the middle of May they should be turned 
count the produce of the soil. Double the into their summer grass, and, in an inclosed 
usual quantity of manure also is thus pro- farm, the division of the fields into different 
duced ; and the annoyance of the cattle in parcels intended to be fed is an object of 
any great degree by flies and insects is ef- great importance. It is justly thought, that 
fectually precluded. This plan has been in large parcels they do not thrive equally 
long and extensively practised in Germany, well as in small ones, and the waste of food 
and is making its way in England, under is considerably greater. It will be found, 
the encouragement of many judicious agri- that in flqcks of from ten to twenty the 
culturists. Nat only may grass be thus same farm will keep considerably more than 
employed for food more profitably than in in one flock. The number should be ap- 
any other way, but boiled roots may be propriated to each field according to wliat 
used with extreme advantage, with a view it is enabled to carry, and suffered to re- 
either to maintain or to fatten cattle ; and, main, without any other change than what 
ridiculous as the idea of this management depends upon the state of individuals from 
for a vast number of cattle and horses might accident or season. They will thus inevit- 
at first appear, it is found capable of being ably flourish. By adhering to the practice 
performed with the aid of a steam engine of folding, which, however, in certain cases 
by one superannuated attendant. The roots may be necessary, much loss is often sus- 
may be permitted to retain their original tained ; much food is spoiled ; and injury 
form, or may be mashed and converted into arises from numbers being so closely crowd- 
thick soup, as is deemed ( most eligible. ed together: and although the practice 
Cleanness and temperate warmth in the may be highly beneficial, as preparative 
process of fattening beasts for human food for corn, this advantage is often too dearly 
are of the utmost importance ; and it has paid for. Another point of very consider- 
been philosophically remarked, that analogy able consequence with respect to sheep is 
will lead us to conclude what observation the practice of close feeding. Even in 
justifies from fact, that whatever tends to pasturage shorn completely to the ground 
form in beasts a state of feeling unirritated the herbage is found rapidly to spring up ; 
by fear, vexation, or pain, must tend to and when drought is observed nearly to de- 
them to their maturity of size and excel- ferent manner, by being permitted to run 
lence. to bent, such as are managed in this close! 
Towards the end of August the annual the moment the seed stem runs, the grand 
purchase of wether lambs for an estate on effort of the system is directed to the for- 
which regular flocks are not kept generally mation of the seed, and the way to produce 
takes place. These are justly preferred for the greatest abundance of leaves, therefore, 
stock to all others. The new Leicester is to prevent the rising of these stems, which 
have the advantage in competition with all by close feeding is of course effectually ac- 
the long-woolled breeds, and the SouthDown complished. 
