404 a p p e n d i x :
i £ j
I made 75 ftones Englijh of cheefe in fix weeks, at 4s. 4d. per
12 ftones of butter, at 5 s. 6 d. per ftone Englijh — 3 J
£• s, ¡a
Wages of four women — 2 8
Wages of ewe-herd •— o l 8 •— 3 1
16 I N. B. The whey made from the milk is more than equal to thJ
maintenance of the above five fervants.
This comes to about 9 4- d. each iheep_
To the north-weft of us, in Tweddale, ClydefdaTe, the head of Aim
nandale and in Galloway, the farmers fell for their product wetfiel
hogs, and fome of them lambs, as we do. For the moft part tl;|
Englijh buy them to lay on their commons. They are a lhort coarlil
woolled iheep, and efteemed very hardy. In thefe parts they aJ
free of that difeaie which kills the young Iheep in our country, an®
which is the reafon of'their keeping all their male lambs on molt ol
the fhrnis. Theie hogs have fold within theie twelve years, fro™
five ihillings to eight ftiillings and fix-pence. The difeafes to w h icl
Iheep are liable are many. I ihall only mention three of them, w h ic l
are moft mortal. That, which we efteem the worft is called the Rot!
They contrail it by pafturing in wet marlhy ground,.when it liapl
pens to be a rainy feafon in the months of Augufi uni September. T h J
only remedy is draining; A bad feafon will even bring on a rot il
dry grounds, where there is much grafs. I f they fuffer much hunger!
either from an overftock in fummer, or from the fnows in winter; ¡1
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will occafion this difeaie. We call another difeafe the Sicknefs, it
appears to be a kind of colic, as it fwells them much in the body:
it moftly attacks young iheep from before Martinmafs until the ipring.
We have no remedy for it. The third difeafe is called the Louping-ill,
which rages moftlv from the ill of April to the ift of June. It deprives
them of the ufe of their limbs. We likewife know no remedy
for it.
P. S. In reading over my letter, I think it right to explain
that part of it, where I fay, that there are farms of four thoufand
acres. I do not mean, that thefe large farms are all paftured by one
flock of iheep, for one flock has feldom above feven or eight hundred
acres to go upon.
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