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Articte XVI. 
AA particular Return of an Experiment made in 
Sheep-Feeding. 
[By Joun Biririncs.ey, efq.] 
HE diverfity of opinion which has long pre- 
vailed, refpecting the moft profitable breed 
of fheep, induced me, in the year 1792, to endea- 
vour, by fair and unbiaffed experiment, to refcue 
the fubject, if poffible, from that degree of uncer- 
tainty in which it feemed to be involved. 
A fair opportunity prefented itfelf at the fociety’s 
general meeting in December 1791. Two farmers 
of eminent rank in the breeding line, one of whom 
was a warm partizan in behalf of the new Leicefter, 
and the other of the Cotfwold fheep, agreed to fub- 
mit to the following experiment under my guidance 
and direétion: namely, that five two-tooth wedders 
(fheep about 12 year old) of their refpective ftocks, 
fhould be fent to my farm the enfuing January; 
that they fhould be kept together one whole year, 
be regularly folded every night, and in all refpects 
treated alike. That they fhould be killed at the 
fociety’s annual meeting in December, and that a 
public teftimony fhould be given of the merit or 
demerit of each. . 
A trial fo fair could not fail attracting the notice 
of all perfons interefted in the event, and a propo- 
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