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On the whole, the practices of this district deserve imitation ; 

 they keep their grass land in high condition, and their arable looks 

 like a garden. They are particularly attentive to the eradication 

 of weeds, and their turnip, and indeed all their fallow crops, may 

 vie with any in the kingdom. 



Lately some of the Leicester sheep have been brought into this 

 neighbourhood, by Mr. Pester near Yeovil, and by Mr. Lowman 

 near Crewkerne. The carcases of some have been sold in Crew- 

 kerne market, and were remarkably fat, and highly esteemed for 

 their delicious flavor ; but with all these good qualities, if they 

 cannot walk a mile to the fold, they never will gain much ground 

 in this country. 



Passing from Crewkerne to the southward, you enter one of 

 those excavations, or large vales, for which this county is remark- 

 able ; comprizing the villages and hamlets of Clapton, Seaborough, 

 Wayford, Woolmingston, Purtington, Cricket-Thomas, Winsham, 

 &c. 



Within this vale, commences a district of twenty miles square, 

 (one half in Somerset and the other in Dorset) which ought to be 

 noted for supplying the summer markets at Exeter with weanling 

 calves. These calves drop in February, and March, are suckled by 

 their dams for three weeks; when they are housed, and suckled 

 by hand with warm skimmed milk until the month of May ; at 

 which time they are sold to the drovers, for the market beforemen- 

 tioned. At Exeter they are bought by the Devonshire farmers, 

 and depastured for three or four years, when they are disposed of 

 to the Somerset graziers, who fatten them for the London market : 

 thus we see that part of what is called the Devonshire breed of 

 cattle is the produce of a small district of the counties of Somerset 

 and Dorset ; a breed which will probably, ere long, be generally 

 acknowledged to be equal to any other in the kingdom. 



The dairy at Ayshcombe farm, within the parish of Vv r ayford, is 

 a good specimen of the Devonshire breed *, 



* Mr. White also of Ilchester has given notice to the Agricultural Society at 

 Bath, that he intends to exhibit, for the premium offered by that Society, a young 

 bull of his own breeding, together with the sire and dam of the Devonshire race; 

 and a ! l breeders of horned cattle, are challenged by him, to produce, at the said 

 exhibition, any three of equal value for stock. 



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