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number of the fatted lambs when the nights begin 

 to be cold and frofty. I have for many years faved 

 my lambs much better than my neighbours, by 

 houfeing them, and giving them hay after drenching 

 them with tar, butter and garlick, which makes thend 

 lax for a day or two. They have a cuftom in Lan- 

 calhire, of rubbing tar and butter on the (kins of 

 Iheep, which they call falving, to thicken the wool, 

 and preferve them from the fcab. I have not heard 

 of this pra6lice in the fouthern parts of this ifland^ 



After writing the above, I received your favour 

 of the 2ift, for which I thank you, and ihall add a 

 few lines in anfwer to your queries. 



I had my roota-haga from a principal feedfman 

 in London, very good, and have preferved fome 

 for feed, as I ihall of thofe you have been fo good 

 as to fend me. I like to try every thing new, and 

 therefore wifh to have fome of the mowing cab- 

 bage, mentioned by Sir T. Beevor in your laft 

 volume. My Carolina grafs all died, and I fear it 

 has no merit. 



The farming gentlemen in North and South 

 Wales are fo remote from, that they have no inter- 

 courfe with, each other; nor have thofe of different 

 counties much; they are moftly divided by hills; 



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