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Qit. 4f. Are they in the habit of making such 

 prices ? 



Ans. In the year 1812, Charles Tibbits, Esq. 

 having ninety cull ewes to sell, indulged a friend 

 with thirty of the best of them, and the remain- 

 ing sixty were sold by auction, and averaged 

 three pounds fifteen shillings each, when a no- 

 bleman in the neighbourhood sold one hundred, 

 which averaged about forty shillings each, and 

 a shear-hog was slaughtered, that weighed nearly 

 sixteen stone, to win a wager; it paid one shil- 

 ling and three-pence per week, for eighty-two 

 weeks' keeping. 



In 1814, ten sheep were sold in a public fair 

 to a stranger, which paid one shilling and three- 

 pence per head per week, for one hundred and 

 four weeks' keeping ; fifty, sold in a lot, paid one 

 shilling and four-pence per week, for one hun- 

 dred and ten weeks' keeping, all grazed in a 

 common way, without the aid of the scuttle, 

 and have dissected a carcase, which produced 

 thirteen and a half ounces of meat to a bare 

 half ounce of bone. 



The above sheep all produced from males, 

 bred upon a farm that was supposed incapable 

 of supporting a sheep through the year before 

 I bought it, I would always choose such a si- 

 tuation, from conviction that the best sort of 



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