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lupplying the market with fome of the beft winter 

 mutton. The SufTex South-Down breed, lately 

 introduced into thefe counties, will feel the fame 

 cfFe6l of change, from Ihort, natural, and extenlive, 

 to confined, fucculent and artificial pafturage; and 

 however profitable on the whole to the grazier, and 

 beneficial to the community, as from the greater 

 numbers fupported on a given quantity of paflurage 

 every late trial at prefent confirms ; yet from the 

 very beneficial mode of their fupport, will gradually 

 decline in the delicacy of their fleece, unlefs amply 

 and annually fupplied with additions to the flock 

 from the original flock on the Downs. The wool 

 of them in this neighbourhood has been fold hitherto 

 at ad. and 3d, per pound lower than the fame in 

 SufTex ; and the wool of the fecond year of impor- 

 tation from SufTex, of the fanrle fheep, was not equal 

 to thatofthe firfl. 



I have been informed, by a very eminent manu- 

 fafturer, that many years fince an attempt, from a 

 fuppofed fimilarity of paflure, was made to intro- 

 duce the long-wooled Lincolnfhire breed into thp 

 hundreds of EfTex. The ftaple was perfed at the 

 firft year, declined in the fecond, and was lofl at the 

 fifth. Repeated new fupplies and crofTings might 

 have kept up fomewhat of the fpecies, and fettled at 



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