these are the finest sheep in England; the South. down and the Bakewell particularly for fatting quickly. How valuable then must the Spanish breed be, if they equal them in this point, and exceed them as three is to one in the value of their wool; while being one-third smaller, they require only a third less food. I annex a drawing of a Bakewell ram, from the Annals of Agriculture. ECONOMICAL ENQUIRIES CONCERNING SHEEP. What are the sorts of sheep in England? DORSET. Very woolly, short legged, rough head, horns round, bred on fine hilly downs, 4 lb. wool, good, chiefly for house and grass lambs, require a fine short bite and are tenderest of all. 2. Wiltshire. High long legs, short wool, bare bellies, white faces, horns falling back behind their ears close to the head, wool 4 lb. chiefly for stock, hardy, require a short bite. 3. Linconshire, Leicester, and Northampton.Shortest legs of all, vast fleeces from 8 to 12 lb. wool long, but inferior, no horns, white faces, and great carcasses, in strong rich pastures that give a mouth full, marches. 4. Treswater.-do. but much longer legged, do. food. 5. South-down.-Small black faces and legs, no horns, wool very short and fine, from 2 to 3 lb. sells by 1d a pound higher than the rest, very har dy and fit for hills. 6. Norfolk. Middle size, horns, long legs, black faces and legs, wool 3 to 4 lb. 7. Nants. Do. but longer legs, and not so clear in the bellies, do. food. Very 8. Mountain, viz. Wales and north. small, indifferent wool to 1 lb. long legs, horns. What is the proper food for sheep at different seasons ? IN summer common grass, clover; in winter turnips; from turnips, some to tares (Vetches) in the spring before the grass is ready, this the universal practice. THE most common diseases are, 1. RoT-Proceeding from springy ground.Symptoms-The red membranes of the eyeleds look white, gums the same, the parts on each side of the udder loose the waxy quality which always adheres to these parts when in health, and the wool peels off; in the extreme of the disease, a swelling under the throat: When they have this disease, they die instantly when put to turnips. The disease resembles the jaundice in the human species, the liver being affected and full of insects like flounders. Remedy; when suspected, put to dry food. Owing to black gravelly land where pennyroyal grows, by pond sides, and gravel pits, and water flowing over land; the vale of Aylesbury rots in two months. 2. STAGGERS-Seized with a vertigo, keep turning round and die in a few days; lambs so, called poddery -No cure. When killed, break off the horn, large maggots like grubs are found at the root of the horn and skull. 3. REDWATER-Seized suddenly with it and go off immediately bloody urine supposed from noxious herbs, or to white frosty mornings in the autumn, or to the dew damp. 4 SCAB-A sort of surfiet resembling the itch insects; proceeds from poverty, over driving, thick folding, heat, insects; cured by rubbing in tobacco water; if not, all the fleece peels off. The tobacco water must be rubbed in when the fleece is dry. 5. FOOT ROT-From wet pastures, soreness between the claws; apply a little turpentine. It is catching, owing to heat, suckling, houses, hot dung, on wet ground not more than dry. When very bad they crawl on their knees. 6. FLY-STRUCK, or maggot-Proceeds from being fly-blown; if not taken immediately will eat into the entrails in 24 hours. Cure, corrosive, ૨ sublimate and turpentine dropped in between the wool and rubbed in. 7. WHITE WATER The same as the red, except in color. How many acres will maintain a given number of Sheep? FOR Stock sheep, 100 will require 5 acres of turnips and 15 clover-inelosed pasture if good will also carry 6 to an acre. A folding flock of 500 without common land, good dry land 50 acres of turnips, 5 loads of hay, 100 acres of clover. What quantity of hay to an hundred? NONE used except in very hard weather when we cannot get at turnips. How many acres will a given stock fold? A SQUARE yard to each sheep per night, but in some countries two nights in a place, 300 sheep give 261 yards in a night average. What is the annual loss per hundred? FIVE per cent. about. When are sheep shorn, and what price of fleece? AT midsummer. dearer. The shorter the wool ther What precautions are used in putting ewes and lambs in clover ? NONE, but not to turn them in with quite empty stomachs. I MENTIONED that there was no disadvantage in small sheep, that they eat in proportion to their size, where the breeds were equally good. I also added, that it appeared to me that the merinos were more thrifty than the common sheep. The follow ing experiments made by Mr. Young, will eluci date this. breeds. He put up four rams of the following 132 lb. No. 1. Bakewell, weight alive, 132 lb. do. In eleven days they eat as follows: 91 lb. No. 1. Cabbage 66 lb. bran 2 pecks, chaff peck, barley meal & peck. No. 2. Cabbage 75 lb. meal of a peck and 1 No. 3. Cabbage 84 bran 2 pecks, barley pint, chaff 1 peck. lb. bran 3 pecks, barley meal peck and 1 pint, chaff 1 peck. No. 4. Cabbage 49 lb. bran 2 pecks, barley mealpeck, chaff 4 peck. This reduced to the value by a scale that he gives, stood thus : Thus it appears that three merinos may be maintained 4 per cent. cheaper than two of the celebrated South-downs. The fleeces of the merinos |