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ticular makes them fo fat, that they
yield more than twenty lifpfund o f fat.
They reckon one kapal o f dunged hay,
and two not dunged, for a llieep’s
winter provifion. When there is a
bad crop, they are obliged to put up
with fiih bones chopped, as well as the
other cattle.
Good iheep give from two to fix
quarts o f milk a day, o f which both
butter and cheeie is made ; it has likewife
a good taile when boiled.
But the principal profit they have
from their ilieep arifes from the wo o l;
this is not iliorii off as among us, but
remains on till the end of May, when
it loofens o f itfelf, and is ftripped off
at once like a ildn, and is then called
Ullafat, The whole body is by this
time covered again with new wool,
which is quite ihort and fine, and of
better quality than the Swediih. It
continues to grow the whole fummer,
and becomes coarfer and iliffer towards
autumn ; it is likewife fmooth
and glpfiy, fomewhat refembling camel’s
hair, but more iliaggy. This
povering enables the ilieep to fupport
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the rigours o f winter; but after they
have loil their wool, i f the fpring
proves a wet one, they take care to
fow a piece of coarfe cloth, or zuad-
mal, round the ilomach of the weak-
eil, and thofe that have leail wool,
A good flieep, againil which no
exceptions can be made, muil, according
to their by-laws, at leail afford four
pounds of wo o l; and it is not uncommon
for them to produce more.
It is not unufual for an ewe to have
two lambs at a time, and fometimes
even three ; they then take away one
lamb from the mother, and give it to
another who has loil hers. When the
lambs are too weak to follow the mother,
they are kept at home and fed
upon milk, which is done by means of
a quill and a wet piece o f ildn.
The price of fix ews, from two to
four years old, together with their
lambs and wool, is four dollars in autumn,
according to the land-tax : a
weather of four years old is fold for
one dollar ; but it is the cuilom for a
merchant to pay only five marks. I f
any body fells a lamb ready killed, it
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