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efteemed in the manufactory of that ftaple commo- 
dity called broad-cloth. It is fold here by weys or 
weights of thirty-one pounds ftanding, and the ave- 
Tage price is ten-pence or ten-pence halfpenny per 
pound; lambs wool produces about an halfpenny, 
or a penny per pound lefs. 
There are no ram fairs, or farmers who let out 
rams for hire for the feafon, in this county; but 
they are chiefly bred from the farmer’s own ftock, 
are put with the ewes at about a year and a half old, 
and the better fort of them are not efteemed of a 
higher value than three or four guineas per head. 
The wether fheep are conftantly folded all the 
year round, running over the ewe leas or downs by 
day, and are penned on the tillage by night; they 
are penned late in the evening, and let out from 
the fold before funrife in the winter, and not later 
than fix o’clock in the fummer. The ewes are 
folded only in fummer, that is, when they have no 
lambs, 
The mode of penning fheep, indeed, varies in 
fome parts of the county, as well as the fize of the 
hurdle; but in general the fize of the hurdle is 
about four feet fix inches long, and three feet fix 
_ inches high, made chiefly of hazle, with ten upright 
flicks; and fifteen dozen of them, with alike num- 
ber of ftakes and wriths, to confine them together, 
will inclofe a ftatute acre of ground, and will con-* 
tain twelve or thirteen hundred fheep therein very 
F 3 commodioufly, 
