2TS AP!?!L. 



SMITHFIKLD. 



It is proper for a y>ung farmer to consider well 

 the various ways by which he turns his fat stock 

 into money. The first and chief of these is Smith- 

 field market. If he lives in a district divided into 

 small or ' middling sized farms, and where the 

 graziers are all or mostly in a regular system of 

 employing one or more district drovers, rn whom 

 great confidence is placed, he is as safe as his 

 neighbours, and may not have reason for any par- 

 ticular caution. This is very much the case in 

 East Norfolk. If he occupies a very large farm, of 

 whatever kind, whether an arable grazing ooe, as 

 in West Norfolk, or a grass-grazing one, as m 

 Lincolnshire, on a scale that enables him to send 

 many droves pretty regularly to his salesman, he 

 may safely trust to him. The common confidence 

 and integrity of trade therr take place. But I am 

 sorry to observe, thnt I scarcely ever knew a man 

 send accidentally a lot of beasts or sheep to Smith- 

 field, lhat got as fair a price for them as his great 

 neighbour, who was in constant dealing, got the 

 same day; or his little ow, whose stock took the 

 same chance through the ; means of a confidential 

 drover. The man who thus drops in a lot, out of 

 the regular course of his business, is rai'ely satis- 

 iied with the treatment he receives. There must 

 be a great deal of truth in this remark, because it 

 has been made to me from so many different quar- 

 ters, and I have suffered in this way myself. 



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