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this valuable animal is liable, are not fo ferloufly experienced 

 in this county as in many other parts of the kingdom. The 

 foot rot, and fcab, which produce confiderable inconve- 

 iiiencies in other places, are but llightly felt even among 

 flieep produced from the flock of the Lincoln and Leicefter 

 breeds, and which are found mod generally to departure in 

 the iflands an^ upon the marfhes, which have been embanked 

 from the fea. 



SECTION III. 



HORSES. 



XjL Defcrlption of the particular breeds of horfes, cho- 

 fen and required in this county for the purpofes of agri- 

 culture, does not feem to apply fo materially to the purpofe 

 of this enquiry, as the expence attending their maintenance, 

 the general mode of feeding, and the working management 

 of them. 



The pra£l:ice of cultivating green food, and foiling the 

 horfes in the yard or ftable, during the fummer feafon, is 

 now become very general through the county; and the daily 

 accumulation of dung by this means, together with the 

 fuperior health and hardinefs which is induced in the plough 

 horfes, by their lodging in the ftraw yard, rather than in the 

 flable, through the winter, is a fufFicient inducement with 



the 



