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grazing stock ; then they would appear in their 

 true light. What does pampering do, but de- 

 ceive the unthinking ? And passing a bad stock- 

 getter, not only wrongs the person who uses 

 him, but injures the public, and ultimately falls 

 upon the poor. 



The man who produces a pound of flesh, or 

 a bushel of bread corn, where it was not pro- 

 duced before, gives food to the hungry, and so 

 far promotes the works of God in his provi- 

 dence. 



Qu. 2. Is thirty-one months the most profit- 

 able age to sell sheep, or to go to market at an 

 earlier period ? 



Ans. The most proper time depends on cir- 

 cumstances ; if sheep are hard worked at an 

 early age, they require more time ; but if in- 

 dulged, will ripen sooner. 



Qu. 3. What were they bred from, twenty- 

 five years before. 



Ans. They were bred from a Dishley tup, 

 put to Northampton ewes, before the name of 

 New Leicester was known ; when Mr. Bake- 

 well was rising out of the solitary vale where he 

 could not meet his creditors, the vale in which 

 he learned, by repeated experiments, of tying up 

 different sorts of sheep, and weighing food to, 



