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this diftrict, who have paid particular attention to 
them, are convinced, that they require full as much 
time and room as the larger native breed. I fay 
nothing of the comparative value of the carcafes to 
the butcher, nor of the eftimation the meat of the 
different breeds is held in by the confumer; the 
moft fatisfactory intelligence on thefe heads may 
be obtained in Smithfield market. 
In the common practice of the diftri@ the wether 
fheep are fatted off from two to three years old. 
The average weight of carcafes, ewe 221b. wether 
26lb. per quarter; fleeces on an average of the 
whole flock run four to the tod of 28Ib. Wool fold 
this feafon [1794] from 14s. to 248. pertod. I un- 
derftood at this time it is not worth more than 18s. 
Wether fheep, by keeping them another year, 
are frequently brought to weigh trom 40 to solb. 
the quarter. 
Probably no part of the kingdom has been more 
improved within the laft forty years, than the Cotf- 
wold Hills. The firft inclofures are about that 
ftanding; but the greater part are of a later date. 
- Three parifhes are now inclofing ; and out of about 
thirteen, which ftill remain in the common field 
flate, two I underftand are taking the requifite 
meafures for an inclofure: the advantages are great, 
rent more than doubled, the produce of every kind 
proportionably increafed. In the open field ftate, 
& crop and fallow was the ufual courfe. What is 
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