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are put into one class, and the smallest of the ewe and we-ther lambs into another.

17. The store lambs are sent to some clean grassy pasturefor a few weeks ; and where the farm does not afford this ac-commodation, they must be summered , as it is called, at a dis-tance. Several farms near Cheviot, and on the Lammer-muir hills in Berwickshire, are appropriated to this purpose,the owner of the lambs paying so much a head for six oreight weeks. In the mean time, the ewe hogs, or giminers asthey are denominated after shearing, have joined the ewestock, and the lambs, when brought home, go to the pasturewhich they had occupied. On the farms to which these re-marks are applicable, there cannot be said to be any hog-fenceallotted to lambs the first winter. It is often necessary tosend them from home after being smeared, or they sometimesdo not return at all till spring, but are both summered andwintered on the same or different farms. Wherever they maybe kept in winter, it is always desirable to allow them a fewturnips along with a full bite of coarse herbage. Very greatlosses are often sustained on these summering and winter-ing grounds, particularly on the latter, which might be muchdiminished, if arrangements could be made for keeping themalways at home under the eye of the owner.

18. When the lambs had been separated from the ewes,it was formerly the practice to milk the ewes for six or eightWeeks or more, and this most objectionable practice is stillcontinued by several farmers. The most skilful store-mas-ters, however, have either laid aside milking, unless for afew days, or have shortened the period to two or three weeks.The value of the milk for eight weeks, will not exceed from1 s. to 1 s. 6 d. a head, and the sheep are injured to at leastthree times that amount, independent of accidents at thebilking fold. The cream is separated from the ewe milk,an d made into butter for smearing, and the milk itself mixedAvitlr cow-milk, and converted into cheese. Of these pro-cesses, it is unnecessary to give any account, after what has