MOST PROFITABLE SORT OF SHEEP. 329 



dairy unfit for sheep, except for a few couples in the 

 spring. These sheep hare been depastured as under : 



56 Acres one and two years old clovers, indif- Feed for sheep. 



fercnt keep, some worn-out ley. 

 85 Acres marsh and capital pasture. 

 35 ditto upland summer pasture. 

 5 ditto just taken in hand, foul. 

 7 Keep upon thirty acres of water-meadow 

 for six weeks in the spring, equal to one 

 — fourth the number of acres, or seven. 

 Total - 188 acres; beside the run of thirty-three acres 

 of turnips. But it is to be observed, that in the same Other stock on 

 ground sixteen plough oxen occasionally, but twelve con- sa ™ e 

 stantly, were depastured; four horses occasionally, four 

 cows constantly, till the after-grass : to this is to be added 

 the run of yearling calves, and a large stock of pigs ; and 

 that the green crops of the spring and summer, 1803, were 

 unusually deficient in these districts. The sheep stock Sheep stock. 

 amounted to 



302 lambs, 

 783 store sheep, 



Total - 1085 ; 

 The produce of them as follows : Produce. 



Wool, 12 packs, 1 score - - *<a£446 

 216 store-sheep sold .... 409 3 

 132 fat sheep ditto and used - - 238 16 2 

 Letting of rams ------ 524 10 



.£1618 9 2 

 N. B. No sheep have ever been kept fattening older than No sheep older 

 four teeth. The fat sheep were all sold after being sheared, than four tee *h 

 and the price of mutton, from the deficiency of keep, was 

 not more than 4|cf» per lb. at one part of the season. 



J. F. LUTTRELL. 

 JOHN BRICKDALE. 

 W. JONES 

 Fitzhead, June 2, 1804. 



* Five hundred fleeces of the above, at 15*. 8</. per fleece, 

 amounted to 39i<?/. 



Omitted 



