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twenty-eight, or thirty pounds, in Smithfield ; \\j t 



but they will not neat twenty-one pounds. SMITHFIF.L& 

 From twenty-two pound, the grofs fale, dcdudfc 

 the expences, feven fhillings and one-penny 

 half-penny a head ; there remains only twenty 

 pounds eighteen fhillings and fevenpence half- 

 penny ; little more than two-thirds of their value. 



Laft week, it is true, this farmer had trie 

 bed end of the flaff: four bullocks, belong- 

 ing to four feparate graziers, were fold in one 

 lot ; and the falefman divided the lot equally ; 

 though it was allowed that this farmer's bullock 

 was not worth fo much by two pounds as foine 

 of the lot ! 



Mr. Baker received for his fix heifers. They 

 fold uncommonly dear; far exceeding what wo 

 had laid them at ; for inftead of five millings, 

 they fetched nearly fix fhillings a flone. One of 

 them which we had laid at forty-eight ftone 

 fold for fourteen pounds*. 



The 



* Among thefe heifers was a feventh a " foul-dugged'* 

 one : namely, an open heifer, which had dropt her calf 

 in coming from Scotland; and was given to Mr. B. by 

 one of the drovers, to make him amends for a hard bar- 

 gain of laft year : an inftance, this, of gencroiity in the 

 drover. 



This heifer was treated the fame as the other fix ; among 

 which flie was fatted ; and was, as to fatnefs, on a par 

 with the reft ; was fomewhat larger ; and would, no doubt, 

 prove nearly as well : neverthelefs, Mr. B. knowing the 

 difadvantageous predicament fheftoodin, did not lay her 



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