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Excerpt from Observations on the Different Breeds of Sheep and the State of Sheep Farming in the Southern Districts of Scotland: Being the Result of a Tour Through These Parts Made Under the Direction of the Society for Improvement of British Wool
It was formerly the whom to keep a good healthy ewe to 7 or 8 years old, when they begin to fail and lofe their teeth Ewes are now commonly fold off with their fourth lamb. Since feeding with hay and turnips has been praélifed, fome of the fe males take the ram the firft year, and bring a lamb at a year old; but this is not ap proved of by judicious breeders, as it tends to make a weak diminutive flock. It is thought better to keep them from the ram till they are a year and a half old, and the fmalleft andweakeft to two years and an half. Big ewes are fold, in the fpring, from IO 3. To 12 s. Fucked ewes, at Michaelmas, from 8 5. 6d. To 9 5. 6d. Wedders, at 25. Years old, for feeding on turnips, at 1 I s. To 12 s. At 3 years old, from 12 s. To 14 5.
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