Show giving sheep their dew three hundred years ago one question used to bother the english farmers there were mere more sheep in england than la in say any other country in the world it so now but that Is another story and et el tho the silly creatures were seldom seen to drink to such an extent was this abstinence observed that when a sheep was noticed drinking it was thought so an old aid writer declared a prodigious thing that sheep should drinka there lucre was he said a cause tor for their never Is so eo much dew on the grasse that they need no other water ancient authors were in thinking that the northern sheep bad more ceede neede ol of water than the southern in those sheep bear the best fleeces of wool that drieke least but it if the animals can not net get dew they must have water in the seasons of great draught that sometimes afflict the australian sheep farmers the flocks perish by the thousand |