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Articte VI. 
wixtract from a General View of Agriculture, in 
the County of Dorfet; with Obfervations on the 
Means of its Improvement. 
[By Joun Crarince, of Craig’s-Court, London. ] 
And accompanied by occafional Remarks by the Editor of 
this Volume. 
ON SHEEP. 
HE advantage derived from fheep, in the 
county of Dorfet, is very confiderable, and it 
is undoubtedly its greateft object as an agricultural 
refource ; indeed, of fo much real importance as to 
be productive of great national benefit. The num- 
ber of fheep kept in the county, from the beft en- 
quiry and computation I have been able to make, 
amounts to upwards of 800,000; and the number 
fold annually and fent out of the county, amounts 
to upwards of 150,000. ‘The greateft advantages 
are derived from them, as well from the profit upon 
the fleece and carcafe, as from the quantity of 
ground manured by them, which I fhall endeavour 
hereafter more minutely to point out. 
In one particular inftance the fheep-owners excel 
all other parts of the kingdom; which is in pro- 
viding ewes to yean at a remarkably early feafon, in 
the Midland counties, which f{upply the metropolis 
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