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mon fymmetry of form, with wool of the fineft tex- 

 ture: and it has often occurred to me, that by doing 

 .fo, and bringing them to a better paflure and milder 

 climate, the foundation of a fuperior breed might be 

 laid. Except on the mountains, or near them, there 

 are not, I believe, fix numerous flocks of Iheep in this 

 county. The only breeding flocks I am acquainted 

 with are in the park at Hillfborough, at Scarva, and 

 Seaford ; I underftand that at Terala Mr. Hamilton has 

 lately got a ram and fome ewes of the Leicefter breed. 

 To any gentleman, who wifhes to be in the breeding 

 line, the firft coft, though high, is foon made up by 

 the advantage of a fuperior flock. The fheep fyftem 

 in this county (if it may be called a fyftem) is, with few 

 exceptions, the buying-in from one to two lambs, or 

 where the farms are larger than common, fometimes to 

 the number of ten or twelve, and keeping them for a 

 year, or a year and a half, and felling them fat to the 

 butchers : fome farmers keep a few breeding ewes, in 

 the fame proportion. 



SECT. 4. Hogs* .< 



A VAST number of hogs are bred in this county 

 annually ; the breeders fell them from the fow, at fix 

 or eight years old, in all the markets and fairs ; the 

 price greatly depends upon the crop of potatoes ; 



when 



