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required by the Norfolk ; add to all which, the Southdown 

 is an equally good turnip Iheep, and for every poflible pur- 

 pofe, whether for its flelh, for its wool, for breeding, for 

 folding, or for the butcher, they demand a kfs fupply of 

 food, and of an inferior quality, to that which in every 

 fituation feems indifpcnfible to the well-doing of the 

 Norfolk . 



The crolTes which have been made between the Norfolk 

 and Wellh iheep; by the Southdown ram, are by fome far- 

 mers efteemed highly advantageous ; by others they arc 

 defpifed as mongrel, deftitute of all the excellencies, but 

 retaining moft of the defe6ls, which individually appertained 

 to the flock from which they were produced. This contra- 

 riety of opinion, and that amongft gentlemen equally re- 

 fpedable for their veracity and judgment, embarrafles and 

 obfcures the queftion fo much, that nothing fhort of a 

 regular feries of experiments, accurately attended to, and 

 conducled upon an extended fcale, can ever elucidate the 

 truth, and prove the neceility of a preference either on one 

 fide or the other. 



From the excellent ftate of the highland drainage through 

 this county, there are but few fpots in it which are liable 

 to communicate the rot to fheep. In the progrefs of the 

 tour, but one inftance deferving notice occurred, and that 

 was in the neighbourhood of Eaft Horndon, upon the com- 

 mons called Bulvan, and Orfet Fen. Thefe commons it is 

 to be remarked are particularly fubjeft to inundation winter 

 or fummer; but the difcafe is obferved to be more prevalent 

 and fatal after light and partial overflowings in the fummer, 

 than after the more frequent and extended inundations at 

 other feafons. The other difeafes and accidents to which 



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