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and has been for fome years, efteemed very 

 juftly the beft grazier in this neighbourhood. 



It is obfervable that bullocks have got on 

 very faft at grafs this fpring. Mr. B. gives 

 for a reafon, that the weather is cool ; and altho* 

 it has been wet, rainy weather does not hurt 

 bullocks fo much as it does Iheep. Hoc 

 weather, he fays, is theworft for bullocks ; " it 

 ' fets them a-gadding; makes them cock their 

 "tails and run about the clofes; and nothing 

 " checks them more." 



BULLOCKS 

 AT CRASS. 



JUNE i. Howhelplefs are the Norfolk far- 

 mers on a wet foil ! If the water do not run 

 through it like a fieve, they are at a ftand : if 

 it lodge on the furface, they are loft. 



This uncommonly wet fpring has embarrafled 



them. Mr. -, one of the oldeft and beft 



arable farmers in the neighbourhood, came to 

 me the other morning to defire I would let him 

 have a little wood to " bum-drain" a piece of 

 land, which he wanted to fow with barley ; but 

 which he could not get on to ; it being under 

 water! ^ 



I reafoned wi^ him on the impropriety of 



under-draining a piece of land while it lies 



S 4 fopped 



NORFOLK 



HUSBAND. 



