42 ON BREEDING AND REARING ANIMALS. 



the hard-worked Northamptons, which had been 

 bred tdoenty-jive yearSy sire and dam without a 

 cross, in tlie same county , in the same parish, and 

 bred and fed upon 07ie farm only. 



From the great indulgence of the Leicesters, 

 they might at that time have been ten shilHngs 

 per head more value ; but the Northamptons 

 were supposed to have cut ten shillings worth 

 more wool at two clips than they had, which was 

 an equivalent. The Leicesters being turned 

 back likewise, upon the farm of Lord FitzwiUiam, 

 and kept through the summer, were expected to 

 come again at St. Luke's fair, and to go to the 

 cattle show, in Sadler's yard, at Christmas. Thus, 

 while the Northamptons were paying thirty-five 

 shillings per head for five months* keeping, the 

 Leicester's made a retrograde motion ; the dry 

 summer, sun, and flies, did not suit them, they 

 went away like an owl in the desert, and their 

 price and weight kept secret. 



I do not see any good purpose answered by 

 those honoured characters, who are ornaments to 

 our nation, bestowing their money to encourage 

 the bringing forward the best trained and finished 

 animals, effected by gathering the cream off the 

 best farms in different counties. Not one farm 

 or one county produces them. I cannot see how, 

 or by what means, the most profit may be made 



