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and embanked marflies, the cattle are driven at much 

 expence and inconvenience to water upon the higher lands. 



About two and a half acres of the feeding marflies are 

 ufually allowed during the fix fummer months, to the grazing 

 of a runt of about thirty-fix fcore : horfes, cows, and flieep 

 are generally depaftured in the fame marflies for the remainder 

 of the year, feeding them down as clofe, and as bare as 

 poflible by the end of January, at whicii time they are fliut 

 up for the fpring, and for the early fummer's growth. 



Lincoln, Leicefler, Southdown, and every br^d of polled 

 flieep are preferred to thofe of the horned kind. The 

 home or marfli-bred wethers, from a crofs between the 

 Lincoln and Welfh, when 4iat, at two years old, will weigh 

 twenty pounds per quarter, and fix pound to the fleece. 

 The crofs between the Lincoln and Leicefler at the fame 

 age, will weigh twenty-four pounds per quarter, and eight 

 pounds to the fleece. Thefe breeds are held in equal efli- 

 mation, and with proper care on the part of the fliepherd, 

 are always kept healthy, and found to anfwer extremely 

 well. 



The Scots "and other cattle, brought from countries 

 watered with lively and refrefhing ftreams, are very fubjedfc 

 to the red-water about Midfummer, but which being timely 

 obferved, the remedy is not very difficult. A fcouring alfo 

 frequently comes on about Michaelmas, which is only to be 

 flopped by immediate removal and change of food ; if long 

 unobferved or negle€led, it always proves fatal. The pole-evil 

 and fiflula are extremely troubkfome among the horfes, every 

 effort to prevent their gathering has hitherto proved ineffeClual, 

 and to cure them aftei the ulcer is broke, is held to be a very 

 uncertain and almoft endlefs taflc. The young horfes which 

 are bred and depa flu red through thefe iflands, in verj dry 



feafons. 



