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NORFOLK. 



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of April ! not one pitiful tone, nor a crooked 

 back, among near a hundred and fifty. 



The ewes have been well-kept all winter -, 

 and have now plenty of turneps and a rough 

 hay-flack to run to. This fhews the effed: of 

 good keep : the Ihepherd very properly ob- 

 ferved, that let lambs have plenty of milk, and 

 they neither fear nor care for any weather. 



What a pleafure, and how profitable, to do 

 well by flock! Had thefc ewes been ill-kept, 

 numbers of lambs mufl have been loft during 

 the laft fortnight of fevere weather; whereas, 

 with their prefent flufh of milk, fcarcely one 

 pf feven or eight fcore has fuffered by it, 



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FEBRUARY 23. A confiderable part of a 

 farm which lies toward the coaft, being hilly 

 and very badly foiled more efpecially the tops 

 and fides of the hills, which have always been 

 full of rabbits in fpite of all endeavours to de- 

 ilroy them- the tenants laft year applied for 

 leave to convert this part, about ninety acres, 

 into a rabbit-warren. Leave was given, and an 

 allowance made them of half the eftimated ex- 

 pence of raifing a fodwall fence round thcfe 

 pinery acres. 



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MAN. OF 

 SHEtP. 



RABBIT. 

 WARREN, 



