108 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



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(a) Mr. Baillie afks, " Is Mr. Kent quite certain, that 

 " South Down, and fome other kinds of fheep, will not fold 

 "or pen as well as the Norfolk?" In the cold climate of 

 Norfolk, I do not believe they will, at leaft, they have not yet 

 been fairly tried ; and why fhould a thing that has been long 

 found to anfwer the purpofe intended, to the full extent of all 

 reafonable advantage that can be expe&ed from it, give way 

 to hafty innovation. Let the gentlemen firft try the experi- 

 ment, and if, contrary to my opinion, it fhould be found to 

 be an improvement, then let the farmer follow them : but I am 

 too much the farmer's friend to wifh to fee him try expensive 

 experiments, where the iffue is doubtful. 



I wifh thofe gentlemen, who are fo fond of changing the 

 native flock, would advert to what Mr. Marfhall very fenfibly 

 and juftly fays, upon this fubje£t, in his Rural CEconomy of 

 this county, pages 366 and 367. He afferts, with equal con- 

 fidence and truth, " that a valuable breed of flock, adapted 

 " to a given foil and fituation, is an acquifition of ages. That 

 " the Leicefterfhire fheep (though he highly commends them 

 " in their proper place) confidered as a breed at large, for 

 " this county, are wholly unfit: they will not live, like the 

 ** Norfolk fheep, on the heaths and open ground — will not 

 " fland the fold fo well — will not travel fo well to the London 

 " markets — or fell, when there, for fo much a pound as the 

 " Norfolks," &c. 



Mr. Dann likewife doubts " whether I have tried the 

 ** South Downs." Certainly not — no one, as I have before 

 obferved, has yet fairly tried them, though I will frankly 



allow, 



