. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE nXCHISG-SIPPERS. Fig. 370. particular blood from the rest of the flock. Twin ewe-lambs receive a hole through both ears. Tup-lambs receive no f^ir-marks, their long tail serv- ing the puipose till they aif weaned, when they are at once transfeired to the tups. Individual tups are so easily identified, and their descent so well known by the shepherd, tliat they require no marking. Fig. 309 are the j}unc/ihfi{, al'which ihe inverted h
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE nXCHISG-SIPPERS. Fig. 370. particular blood from the rest of the flock. Twin ewe-lambs receive a hole through both ears. Tup-lambs receive no f^ir-marks, their long tail serv- ing the puipose till they aif weaned, when they are at once transfeired to the tups. Individual tups are so easily identified, and their descent so well known by the shepherd, tliat they require no marking. Fig. 309 are the j}unc/ihfi{, al'which ihe inverted hollow cone r/, having its small end sharpened, is em- ployed to cut the hole out of the ears ; and, to save the ears from being unduly pinched, a pad of horn b is inserted into the straight under-arm of the nippers, the pieces nipped out rising out of the orifice c. The figure at once shows how the instrument is used, being sim- ilar to the one used by shoemakers to punch holes into the lappets of shoes, through which the shoe-strings are passed, and it costs 2s. 9d. Buisting consists of stamping a letter or letters, expressive of the initials of the name of the owner or of that of the farm, or of both. The buist or mark is effected by a simple instrument a, fig. 370, which carries the capital letter S. This mark is made on the same principle as the ear-marks, the near side indicat- ing the female, and the far side the male sheep. The material of which the buist is made is boiled tar, made viscid by a little pitch. The sheep to be buisted are put into a convenient apartment of the steading, and handed out one by one, and kept steady by holding the head and rump by the hands ; and a knee being placed against the opposite side causes the side to be marked to project. The buist is then dipped lightly into the melted tar, to prevent its dripping ; and, to make the mark vivid, it should be applied with some force, and with the entire surface at once, to compress the wool equally, an
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