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per fleece, and at Is. lOd. per pound, will pay 6s. 6d |*ee. 

 fleeee ; which, at 6 1-2 per acre, in good upland pasture 

 for seven months, and five months in turnips, at 11 or 

 15 per acre, will pay 38s. or 40s. per acre. Rycland store 

 ewes, two pounds and a quarter per fleece, at 2s. 2d. per 

 pound, untrinded, nine sheep per acre, and turnips as 

 above, will pay 21. 3s. 10 1 2d. per acre. 



" South Down and Merino ewes, of the half breed, at; 

 four pounds per fleece, clean washed, and 3s. per pound, 

 will amount to 12s. per fleece ; which, at 7 12 per acre, 

 for seven, months, amount to 41. 10s. per acre, for the pas- 

 ture land, with turnips as above for winter keep, llye- 

 3and and Merino ewes, of the half blood, at 10 j)cr acrcj^^ 

 for seven months, and turnips as above, at 3 1-4 pounds 

 per fleece, and 3s. 2d. per pound, amounts to 61 10s. 5(}^ 

 per acre. 



" The pure Merino fl.'cccs never sold at less than one 

 guinea each ; the average weight of which has been 

 more than six pounds each, in the yolk ; and on the above 

 allowance of pastuie for seven months, and turnips as 

 above, ii- aid of that pasture, the return will amount to, 

 ten guineas per acre. 



" At the last meeting of the Society, a paper having' 

 been read, as the repurt of a Committee appointed by 

 the Society to examine the state of that part of the farm 

 of Lord Somerville, which is appropriated to the feeding 

 of sheep, the So:-iety ordered that repoit to be printet',. 

 and sent to vaiious members for their consideration, pre- 

 viously to the next meeting, in November, at \\hich they 

 were requested to deliver their opinions on the said re- 

 port. A method of proceeding, so new to this Society, 

 must have implied, not sui'ely that the facts there stated, 

 were incredible, but that the subject itself was so i!.Mpor- 

 tant to individuals and the community, that every cir- 

 cumstance relative to it could not he too thoroughly in- 

 vestigated, or too generally known. The Society will 

 please ti recollect, that this report is that of a Committee 

 nominated by thcmseive?; to cxaiaiine Lord Somcrville's 



