17&2. 



NORFOLK. 



207 



Such a ftroke as this is a real improvement 

 of an efta-te; and there are few extenfive 

 eftates which will nor, if properly attended 

 to, admit of being advanced, without fending 

 the farmer to jail, or the cottager to the 

 poor-houfe. 



106. 



MAY 12. WORSTEAD FAiR.This fair MARKETS. 

 is held on Old May-Day, and is called 

 " May Fair." It has for many years been 

 noted for fat bullocks. This year, however, 

 there were not more than a hundred bullocks 

 in the fair, and not twenty of thofe which 

 were fat. There were about three hundred 

 head of cattle; chiefly two-year-olds, and 

 cows and calves, with fome few buds. 



The Norwich butchers were the principal 

 chapmen for bullocks. 



108* 



MAY 17. Laft year, to render my reft- cows, 

 dence more commodious, as well as to gain 

 fome information on the fubjeft of chcefe- 

 making an art I was then a ftranger to I 

 rented a fmall dairy of cows. I took them 

 the rather as I had then in my fervice an ex- 

 cellent 



