. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. d gimmers, which shouldh ive lambs in spring ; ewe lambs or hogs ; and a few young and old rams. All these arc sometimesallowed to pasture promiscuously ; but on the farms around Cheviot the ewes and ewe hogs are keptseparate, and the ewe hogs are either put on rough pastures, which have been lightly stocked in the latterend of summer, or get a tew
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. d gimmers, which shouldh ive lambs in spring ; ewe lambs or hogs ; and a few young and old rams. All these arc sometimesallowed to pasture promiscuously ; but on the farms around Cheviot the ewes and ewe hogs are keptseparate, and the ewe hogs are either put on rough pastures, which have been lightly stocked in the latterend of summer, or get a tew turnips once a day, in addition to the remains of their summer most effectual preventive Of the desolating distempers to which sheep of this age are liable is turnips;and though they should never ta-te them afterwards, a small quantity is frequently given them duringtheir first winter. After the rams have been separated from the ewes, they are usually indulged with thesame feeding as the hogs. ° Book VII. MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP 1050 7194. The ewes, during winter, are seldom allowed any other food than what their summer pastureaffords, except that a small part of it may sometimes be but lightly eaten, and reserved as a resource 893. against severe storms. When these occur, however, as they often do in the Cheviot district, there is littledependence on any other food than hay. When the snow is so deep as completely to cover the herbage,about two stones avoirdupois of hay are allowed to a score of sheep daily, and it is laid down, morningand evening, in small parcels on any sheltered spot near the house, or under the shelter of stells or clumpsof trees, on different parts of the farm. 7193. The ewes in March, at least the gimmers or young ewes, are commonly allowed a few turnips oncea day, on farms on which there is any extent of arable land ; which are either carted to their pastures, oreaten on the ground, by bringing the sheep to the turnip field through the night. A
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