Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-08

abundance Of milk, though they liv, NM,
dry fodder all the winter. he f-ep po,
cutting OF clover and Iucerne are t5,irna
ly forage.
Each iheep, bstides his two pounds Of
luccrne eats about half p-una Of o,,..
with ia Balle) OF corr. In the evsn,no
fame ltfaw is pat into the rack 10 somts
them during the night, bat this is not cal
crlated on as any part OF their nour;h
ment. winter they are todlered tou.
times day; and the Aock is driven a
bout and to walk for exercife during =,
hour or two, provided tie rain does not
psevsnt.
The fneep are divided into four diGina
aocks to Wit the ewes, the rams of two
years old and oPwards the male lauIbs.
and the female lambs AID wethers. Th;,
latt flock is not at Rambouillet. The
whole Of thefe animals amounts anoH "a
fix hundred.
| was foguIarly truck with the beauty
OF the yeariing rams. think their mean
weight was ABOUT eighty p,unds, & they
continue growing until they are three year,
old. The cultom now is to leave on their
ara aeeces until they are eighteen month,
Cd before they are iheared. About do
zen lambs are lheared ar the end Of a year
by way ofexperiment. This has AWAY,
f4cceeded we'll; tho ii he's been found
that Iambs fheared the fira year, iufercd
IRON The ions rains of the funmer, or the
istt frolts Of autumn. Mr.. Bourgeois, the
ilperinlendant OF the national farm, has
conf mel b. his own observations hat
En)ielI nave remarked, that ii is Of great
Importance TO the beauty Of aram or heep,
that his growth lhouId not be interrupted
by any accident during the hrR year
Another reaion for waiting 10 the iecond
year before ihearlng, is that the ewes are
worth Iels than the wool they yield, and
thar the weight OF the lift Aeece at the age
Of eighteen months, is equal TO that Of the
two Hearings, in the old way.
OIt OF about fixty rams, | obGerved a
dazen OF exceIling thape. As TO the fire
nefs OF wool there is bur fnalI difference
among them for none but fu e fms are
kept 10 the el5aDlifhment. The horns are
nor cur as they uled 70 De, uolsfs they are
TOO clole 70 hurt their heads. /; has been
found that purchdlers prefer rams with
their horns entire. Theie rams are fin.
eularly mild and trattabis. They col
let around thote who g. into their told,
and never pretend 70 butt. They may
be catched and examined without the lcae
difficulty. Bat they attack one another
and fight with fury. Sometimes there
are n1rc than twenty battles at once IN
their inclolure. lM. Delorme The ir&
fhepherd at Ramboulliet faid at lnch times,
initead of attempting to paEr them, he
found it neceaary TO get out OF the way
and taxi care OF himieii. The ewes are
more Thy and hard TO catch, when yca
with 70 examine them. The keeper CAL
led our attention TO ,h3Ee which had not \
been (leared for thirty months, and aye
under expctimsnt fer alcertaining what F
will be the condition Of the fleece at the
end of three years The wool is even ID +
ches long, and iticks on as ai'n!y as u II
was only one year old. Theie t"o Ine:P b
10 not fufar from the weight OF thtif
hseces but neither of thsm is very tlitk' Z
There are number Of remarks on ieec. E
ing, failing and keeping this breed OF
lheep; and Of the management OF anotnsf K
lock lately introduced from PeTplgnan ID
Spain, which we may probably oTsr 10 Oh
readers on a future occailon. s.
Mr.. Livingston has already tent Owe.
lome of this breed of lheep, as the no.. s
aIuabe preient he could MAKE 70 N'
-ounsry.