MINUTES 



JUKI? 



117, 



SMITHFIELD 

 MARKET. 



DISTRICT. 



The under-done fleers, which went up with 

 thefe heifers, (fee MIN. 113.) fold for nothing. 

 They did not fetch above eleven pounds 

 a-piece, one with another, notwithstanding 

 they weighed confiderably more than the 

 heifers. 



This ihews the abfurdity of fending bul- 

 locks to Smithfield before they be fat : Mr. 

 B.'s were "right-fat," and fetched fix {hil- 

 lings ; Mr. D/s only " meaty " and did not 

 fetch four {hillings and fixpence, notwithftand- 

 ing the extraordinary market* 



118.- 



JUNE 17. On Saturday laft fet out for the 

 BLOWFIELD HUNDRED, and the YARMOUTH 

 MARSHES, in company with Mr. John Hylton, 

 of Felmingham, who formerly reiided in that 

 diftrid. 



We pa!Ted through the following Hundreds 

 and Parilhes. 



at more than ten pound. But following thefe heifers t<5 

 London, and falling in company (on the eve of the mar- 

 ket) with a butcher, to whom he related thefe circum- 

 ftances, he got twelve pound ten {hillings for her : a ftrik- 

 ing inftance, this, of the advantage of following bullocks 

 to Smithfield : and, in fimilar crofs cafes, or when the lot 

 fent up is extraordinarily large, it may fometimes be pru- 

 dent for a Norfolk grazier to attend the market in perfon ; 

 but, in general, perhaps, it is three or four guineas, and 

 three or four days, unprofitdbly fpent ; provided the gr-< 

 siier can depend upon the vprightnefi of his falcfman. 



