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didfaffiously, and had plenty of money from 

 our milk business, and increased our num- 

 ber of cows to twenty. 



I bought nineteen ewes and a tup, to try 

 how sheep would answer. They were very 

 expensive in wintering ; for they wanted 

 food in the same way as horses or cows for 

 near four months, and a house to run into 

 at night. They cost me thirteen shillings 

 and six pence each : and I sold twelve of 

 the ewes at twenty-one shillings each after 

 they had reared their lambs ; the lambs 

 sold at nineteen shillings each : the remain- 

 der of the ewes at nineteen shillings each. 

 Their wool I sold at three shillings per 

 pound to more than twenty customers. 

 They paid on the whole very well. I dis- 

 covered among these sheep some of the 

 small-tailed kind, and found them to be 

 more inclined to fatten than many of the 

 others ; but at that time I had not the least 

 idea of what they descended from, not hav- 

 ing seen in England any thing like them, 

 except the Dishley sheep. These sheep 

 came from Holland. 



