1782. 



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" feet drawn together, as if they were afraid to 

 *' move them from the place they ftand in.*' 

 Cold weather,he fays> no doubt checks bullocks 

 which go abroad very much ; more efpecially 

 if it be wet ; adding, that " if their backs be dry 

 "they do not fo much mind the cold." 



94. 



MARCH 25. AYLSHAM FAIR. This feems 

 to be a fair appropriated to dealings between 

 farmer and farmer, rather than to drovers and 

 profeflional dealers. It is chiefly noted for 

 plow-horfes ; which, at this feafon of the year, 

 become valuable to the Norfolk farmer ; every 

 hand and hoof becoming bufily employed 

 againft barley feed-tirnej. It is, however, upon 

 the whole, a fmall fair ; and the fairftead un- 

 commonly fmall and incommodious. 



To-day the number of cattle were very few : 

 not more than one hundred head in the fair : 

 and thofe in general of a refufe kind. 



It feems to be a fact, univerfally underflood, 

 that the quantity of flock in this county, has 

 of late years very much declined. There have, 

 it is generally allowed, been fewer young cat- 

 tle reared of late than there were formerly : 

 owing, it is thought, to the lownefs of price ; 

 M 2 arifing 



BULLOCKS 



AT 

 TURNEPS. 



MARKETS, 



CATTLE. 



