$22 MINUTES Arc, 



12J. fourteen pounds. Seven and eiglit Shillings 

 were a ^ ec ^ ^ or tiie diminutive " heath-lambs" 

 (from the Brandon fide of the county), not 

 much larger than rabbits. Laft year they were 

 fold at three, or three and a half, four the out- 

 iide price. Notwithftanding, however, the high 

 prices this year, a principal part of the lambs 

 were fold. 



There are feveral reafons for the high price 

 of Norfolk lambs this year : the low price 

 which they have borne for fome years back 

 has greatly reduced the fize and number of 

 ewe-flocks : another, there being no market 

 for long wool, while Norfolk wool bears a 

 high price, the Lincolnihire farmers are get- 

 ting into the fhort-wooled breed of Iheep ; 

 and have, it is faid, bought up confiderable 

 numbers of Norfolk lambs, and dock-ewes, 

 this fummer : and another reafon, the firfl 

 fowirig of turneps having been cut off by the 

 caterpillar, the fecond fovving will produce 

 better food for Iheep than for bullocks. 



Stock-ewes were fold from twelve to fifteoa 

 ihillings a head ; fheerling-wedders fourteen 

 or fifteen Ihillings ; and even a parcel of 

 crones were fold fo high as twelve millings, 

 but they were fingularly good ones ; in gene- 

 ral, 



