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hie yefterday called on them feparately, and putting to 
them the following queftions, (nearly in the fame 
way) received anfwers from each, of very fimilar 
tendency, and nearly to the following purport:— 
How are the ewes and lambs ?—Very well. How 
is the turnip-rooted cabbage?—Very good; but not 
enough. What would have been the confequence, if 
you had been without even what you had?—Dittrels! 
fatality! deftru€tion! How many lambs have you loft? 
~Very few, not more than.ufual; none from want 
of food, nor are any hurt, &c. &c. 
The intelligent reader will judge how far fuch 
-anfwers could have been generally obtained, whert 
the turnip-rooted cabbage was not cultivated. 
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{ The following moft ufeful Compendium is printed in a 
convenient fize for the pocket, and may be purchafed at 
this Society’s Rooms, by application to the Secretary.] 
The Farmer’s, Grazier’s, and Butcher’s Ready- 
Reckoner ; a short Tuble, by which the Weight of 
Stock, according to the different usages in England, 
_ can be ascertained; and the Value of Stock of any 
Size, with the difference, at once discovered. 
c a [By the Right Hon. Lord SOMERVILLE. | 
HE many difficulties arifing from the different 
- modes of calculating the weight of ftock, 
‘namely, by the fcore of 20]b,—the {tone of 141b.— 
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