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as well as dealers to get rid of my fheep, but could 

 not. I had given 6s. 6d. each for them in Sep- 

 tember 1779, anc * vet was offered no more for 

 them than 10s. I determined therefore to put 

 them to carrots. 



Nov. 4, 1780, I inclofed a pen with hurdles 

 on a dry meadow, put the fheep in, and fupplied 

 them with carrots, moving the hurdles on as they 

 foiled the ground fo as to make it too dirty to 

 cat upon; but as the improvement of the land 

 was one object, being mony and hide-bound, I 

 did not fhift them 'till the grafs was quite black 

 with' their dung, and much better folded than is 

 ever done in the common way. 



'Till the 2 id, they ate no more than two bufhels 



(weight 561b. each) a day. I then find from my 



minutes that they ate three 'till the 25th, and by 



the 28th they had got to fix; but fome days they 



ate eight, and even ten ; in others only five were 



given, to make them eat clean. By the 16th of 



December, the quantity was pretty regularly hve 



a day. But I found upon an average of the whole 



experiment, that the quantity might in a general 



way be reckoned at four bufhels a day feeding 



twenty lambs. They weighed alive at putting to 



carrots ioolb. each. 



April 



