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leading varieties, which, some certain spots eXtbpie^r 

 srr to be found in the vviiole United Kingdom. 



Tho quantity cT stock hereafter stated to run per acre, 

 )nav appear great to many persons : some inay be dis- 

 posed to doubt the facts. Every possible precaution t© 

 ascertain them, has been taken, and to speak with as 

 much accuracy as can be, where we are to reason on an 

 average. jMy wish was notk) deceive myself: 1 trust it 

 is not in my nature wilfaliy to deceive otlsers. Tht- liye- 

 land sheep, alluded to, were summered at 2J each per 

 week by my own tenant that season ; we knotv the fact 

 to be correct, which he has repeatedly confirmed by de- 

 claring, that it was the exact average per avre. In the 

 marsh, such a stock, in point of numbers, of fat and itore 

 sheep, has been carried, as would bt found almost to ex- 

 ceed belief. The fatting wether-hogs and draft store* 

 ewes, which must be, to make the most of tliem, kept as 

 hi«"li as fat sheej), amounted to more than four per acre, 

 during the six summer months ; the store ewes amount- 

 ed to more than two per acre, and \\cre large, strong, 

 South-down ewes, of Mr. Ellman's blood, in all more 

 than six per acre, besides refuse-lambs, &c. &c. and no- 

 thing could exceed their proof. In the winter of 1800, 

 the Vale estate carried, from the beginning of Septem- 

 ber, to the first week in June, 700 store-sheep, about 250 

 lambs included, on one hundred acres of pasture land, 

 of which sixty were indifferent, and forty as good pas. 

 ture land as could be seen: the ground carried more 

 stock ; probably from the mode of depasturing. Where 

 sheep work in tbe fold, they must run in large lots ; and 

 some loss per acre in the stocking may be incurred, be- 

 cause the profit of the fold is great ; but where folding 

 is not practised, and the country much enclosed, sheep 

 should be stocked in small parcels, thin on the ground, 

 and frequently changed : the land thereby is not stained, 

 and one lot follows another in perpetual successiorv 

 Every judge of stock knows the value of change, even, 

 occasionally, into worse keep. It is our fixed belief, 

 that wc can carry .^ix and a half ily elands, per acre oa. 



