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Am. Picked the stubbles until they went to 

 turnips, on which they were wintered, and at 

 spring were removed to old grass land, and 

 never eat clover or artificial grasses. When 

 brought to-Whitsun fair, (May 17th,) such was 

 the glut of mutton that a price was not offered 

 for them, and three pound ten shillings each 

 would have purchased them. Not being sold, 

 they were turned back upon a piece of old turf, 

 where they remained all summer, without pro- 

 tection from sun and flies, and gained thirty- 

 five shillings each for five months' grazing. Had 

 they been sold and slaughtered at the end of two 

 years for three pounds ten shillings each, after 

 being hard worked the first summer, their merit 

 and great profit would not have been known, 

 which undoubtedly is the case with thousands of 

 the best animals in the nation. At the same 

 Whitsun fair, there was a lot of the great Leices- 

 ters, six in number, brought forward by a tup 

 man, who occupies a farm under Lord Fitzwil- 

 liam, which will feed any animal that possesses 

 any feeding nature ; and he has a father-in-law 

 who has two of the best turnip farms in the 

 county at command to winter sheep upon, and 

 corn troughs generally before them. Those six 

 Leicesters, after feeding upon the cream of two 

 or three farms, were brought forward to beat 



