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off one of the poor miserable animals that he sold me. For my 

 own part, I confess 1 could not relish the mutton, although 

 I felt sure there could be nothing unwholesome in it. 'Jne 

 difference between that and the other mutton is, the lean is 

 more tender and less flaroured ; the fat is whiter, and the 

 gravy lighter coloured. The fanner informed me some 

 time afterwards of one circumstance which was important. 

 He said he understood I was to have forty of his sheep, and 

 therefore he drew forty of the worst of his flock, and marked 

 them for me ; that the next day, not liking to part with so 

 many at so poor a price, he turned back into his flock 

 twenty of the best of them with the mark on, and every one 

 of those twenty died. A few years ago, I made several 

 inquiries after the medicine, and could bear nothing of it, 

 but found that Armitage was dead. No medicine can 

 make sound a liver that is in part rotten ; but it can BO stop 

 the progress of this disease by killing the fleaks, as to allow 

 the sheep, with a summer's feeding, to get marketably fat. 

 The chief ingredient in all the remedies must be oil of tur- 

 pentine. 

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FOLDING is a good practice on land that will not 

 produce turnips, but will with folding, produce wheat of 

 the very finest quality. So necessary is folding known to 

 be on large, strong, arable-land farms, in Hampshire, ami 

 in other counties, that large flocks of breeding ewes are 

 kept for that especial purpose: the wether lambs, when 

 weaned, are sold, and the oldest ewes are drafted to go into 

 other counties tc* breed fat Iambs for the batcher, while the 

 ewes are replaced by their tbeavea. Folding clover leys 

 on light land for wheat is a good practice, ihe sheeps* 

 dung being- more equally divided over the land than when 

 the sheep are not folded. 



BREEDING CATTLE, to any extent, is best calculated 

 for those counties where the land is not rich enough for 

 feeding, or too far distant from London to get fat cattle 

 there without great loss in \veight and value, besides in- 

 curring great expense; still, however, I have long been of 

 opinion, that breeding on a small scale, on many farms in 

 this county, which are part arable and part grass, might be 



