APPENDIX. 197 



Upon Improving the Breed of Cattle. 



Letter from Mr. OVERMAN, to Sir JOHN SIN- 

 CLAIR, Bart, dated Burnuam Deepdalb, 15th Aug. 



SIR, 



JLAvS the purfuit of agriculture is the path of life allotted to 

 my (hare, I cannot be inattentive to any undertaking which 

 may ferve to forward lo great a national object, more efpecial- 

 ly, when I fee the inveftigation of it committed to gentlemen 

 equally known for their exteniive knowledge, and the bene* 

 volence of their intentions — the moft beneficial cpnfcquences 

 muft of courfe follow. 



I beg to affure the Board of Agriculture, that I by no 

 means want inclination to contribute any information, in my 

 power, toward forwarding the great work they are engaged 

 in ; but I much fear, at the fame time that the partiality of 

 fome unknown friend has over-rated both my abilities and 

 my experience in hufbandry ; the latter of which has been 

 exercifed only upon a very narrow fcale, and, were it other- 

 wife, the attention neceffary to the conducting my own buli- 

 ncls, does fo far engrofs my time, as to allow very little avo* 

 cation from my main purfuit. 



I am of opinion, notwithstanding the many modern im- 

 provements which we boa ft of, that hufbandry, in general, 

 is frill in its infancy, and that the know ledge of cattle is 

 more fo. 



The county of Norfolk produces abundant pro.!"-, that 

 booes ind offal are the produce of a large pprl 



hc;buge of this county. 



