An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 {fg. 893.) :h:)ws a gallery (c), which surrounds the building
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 {fg. 893.) :h:)ws a gallery (c), which surrounds the building, and is used as a passage for viewing the sheep, handling them with the crook, and at night for the perambulations of a watch-dog. The roof being twenty feet from the floor, the interior is abundantly airy, which for sheep is an important object. Another design in the same work (fig. 897.) is accompanieil by an elegant Indian watch- tower, with apartments therein for the shepherd. 7227. T/ie economy of the is as follows : —The sheep which begin to lamb about i\iichaelmas are kept in the close during the day, and in the house during the night, until they have produced twenty or thirty '[i||[j|||)iH ^*j^ I Iambs. These lambs are then put into a larab-house, which is kept con. -iimilljili^i^^'^l stantly well littered with clean wheat straw ; and chalk, both in lump and in powder, is provided for them to lick, in order to prevent looseness, and thereby preserve the lambs in health. As a prevention against gnawing the boards or eating each other's wool, a little wheat straw is placed, with the ears downwards, in a rack within their reach, with which they amuse them, selves, and of which they eat a small quantity. In this house they are kept, with great care and attention, until fit for the butcher. 7258. 7V«' mothers of the lambs are turned, every night at eight o'clock, into the lamb-house to their offspring. At six o'clock in the morning these mothers are sepa
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