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certain cge, cannot receive injury from this 

 admixture. Tlie only thing to be feared from 

 it is, that the flock will not fat fo eirJy^ as 

 will that of the genuine breed; and, if the 

 opinion of the oldefl:, graveft, and I had al- 

 moft faid, the bed farmer in the Diflrirt has 

 any weight in this cafe^ this evil effect is much 

 no be appreihendcd : he is clear in that a 

 '• Scot*' does not fat kindly even at three years 

 old ; much lei's at t-jco \ at which age many 

 hundred head of cattle are annually fatted in 

 this country. - ; -■.- 



The facft appears eviderftly to be, that the< 

 Norfolk hufbandmen are in pofTciljon of a 

 breed of cattle, admirably adapted to their 

 foil, climature, and fyftem of management : 

 and let them crofs with caution ; left by mixing 

 they adulterate; and, in the end, lofe, irre- 

 trievably, their prefent breed of cattle; as 

 their forefathers, heretofore, loft a valuable / 

 breed of horfes ; the lofs oF which can, now, 

 be -only lamented. 



If, through the laudable fpirit of im.prove- 

 raent, attem.pts be made with foreign breeds, 

 they ought to be made with caution. But, 

 from what I have fecn and know of the Nor- 



folk 



