1782. 



NORFOLK, 



'37 



BREED DI- 

 SHED. 



M/|N. OF 

 SHEEP. 



76. 76- 



FEBRUARY 12. The long-wooled ewes (fee 

 laft MIN.) have lambed with great difficulty, 

 this year. The fhepherd has been obliged to 

 aflift the major part of them. 



Ihefe ewes were therefore kept at grafs until 

 $fter they had dropt their lambs ; the {hep- 

 herd having been taught by experience that ewes 

 9t turneps are liable to mortify, upon receiving 

 tl>e fmalleft injury in lambing; much more 

 liable than at grafs. 



77- 



FEBRUARY 12. There feems to be fome- SOIL - 

 thing peculiar either tp the air or the foil of 

 this county. The face of a ditch, though 

 formed of a dead ill -coloured fubftratum of 

 mould, becomes, in a few years, black and 

 rich in a high degree ; fo as to be coveted by 

 the farmer almoft as much as dung. When he 

 re-makes his fence he carefully faves this rich, 

 or rather enriched, mould (for according to 

 the cuftom of ditchers the face is always made 

 of the worft mould) : or, if he throw down a 

 fence, he as afiiduoufly preferves both the face 

 and the back for the bottoms of his farm-yard 

 or dung-hills. 



Does not this incident afford us an idea ap- 

 plicable to the enrichment of the foil in gene- 

 ral ? 



