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each, and are calculated to pay very well if they return 3I. 

 per couple (lamb wool and fat ewe included) by harveft. 

 The other clafs is a medly of Norfolk, Weldi, Harford, 

 Wiltfliire, the lambs of which, are falling from the middle 

 of December till the beginning of February, and fometimes 

 tili Candlemas. Thefe generally cofl: from 15s. to a guinea 

 a piece, and are alfo allowed to pay very well, taking lamb 

 and wool equally into the account, if they turn over (/. e. 

 double their firft coft) in time for the land to receive its new 

 flock of flieep in the autumn. The reafons generally af- 

 figned for preferring any of thefe latter clafs individually, 

 are, that the Welfh are good nurfes, and feed excellent 

 lambs. That the Hartford and Wiltfhire (land well out of 

 the dirt, are hardy, and will do well upon a coarfe and four 

 herbage ; or that the Norfolk are good turnip fheep, always 

 feeding quick, and paying well after the lamb is fattened. 



The experiment Hated in the Journal to have been made 

 at Finchingfield, upon a Norfolk and Southdown ewe, il- 

 luftrates in fome degree, ths peculiar excellencies and defeds 

 of thofe breeds; and it is only to be regretted, that the trial 

 was not made upon a larger fcale, and in fuch a manner, 

 as to afcertain with a ftill greater certainty the abfolute 

 intrinfic value and charaderiflic qualities of either ani- 

 mal; enough however is eftabliihed from the experiment 

 ,to prove, that barring the firft cofl: of the Southdown ewe, 

 it is unqueflionably proved to be the better flieep. On the 

 fcore of the firft coft of thefe flieep an objedion may be very 

 juftly ftated as to their general ufe ; but when the South- 

 down fliall be more generally bred and increafed through the 

 country, in that proportion will the prefent objedion be 

 done away ; and though they may continue in equal eftima- 

 tion, they will neverthelefs by their being more generally 



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