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allow, that, next to the native fheep, they would do better 

 in Norfolk than any other ; for they are a hardy, and a very 

 good and profitable fheep. All that I have contended for, is, 

 that I do not fee the neceffity of a general change of the flock. 



(3) Mr. Baillie remarks farther — " How do farmers pay 

 " their rents where no folding is praftifed, and where the 

 " land is as well cultivated, and the crops of turnips, &c. 

 " fuperior to Norfolk, and foil of no better quality? In an 

 " inclofed country, folding is a barbarous practice, and the 

 " time is not far diftant when it will be totally abolifhcd. " I 

 wifh to know where this country is, that grows better tur- 

 nips than in Norfolk, upon foil of equal quality ? As to the 

 latter part of this remark, I truft, I may venture to affcrt, 

 that Mr. Baillie will not, in this cafe, prove a true prophet. 



(c) The following remark is made by Mr. James : — " I con- 

 '» fefs myfelf averfe to any fyftem, which, like the game aft, 

 " is likely to become a fourcc of difcord and contention. I 

 " don't know whether the intentional deftruction bv the far- 

 " mer, owing to the reftraint he is under, is not more than 

 " equal to what it might be, was this arbitrary aft repealed." 



