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THE NUMBER of fwlne reared and fat- 

 ted in Norfolk is very confiderable : the dairy 

 in fummer, the ftubbles in autumn, and the 

 barns and ilables in winter, furnifh a conflant 

 fupply of fuftenance ; while the great quanti- 

 ties of buck raifed in this country furnilhes 

 an ample fource of fatting. 



In Norfolk, however, as in other Diflridls, 

 farmers differ widely about the proper number 

 to be kept, upoa a given farm, under given 

 circumflances. It may neverthelefs be faid 

 that, ..i general, they are fully aware that a 

 moderate number well-done-to, are more pro- 

 fitable, in the end, than a greater number 

 badly kept ; — yet there are fome few men, 

 even in Norfolk, whofe half-ftarved herds are 

 nuifances to the neighbourhoods they are kept 

 in ; without affording either pleafure, or ex- 

 traordinary profit, to their refpedive owners. 



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