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middle foiled upland fituation, equal, as 

 Graziers flock, to any other breed*. 



II. BREEDING SHEEP. From what 

 has been faid refpedling the heterogeneous 

 llate, in which the ordinary flocks of this 

 Country now appear, it is not probable that; 

 much attention has lately been paid to the 

 SELECTION of either males or females : 

 and, yet, no Country in the Ifland would 

 repay fuch an attention, better, than De- 

 vonfhire ; a principal part of whofe lands 

 are peculiarly fuitable for Sheep. 



The TIME OF PUTTING THE RAMS 



TO THE EWES is v€ry early, compared with 

 that of m.ofl otlier Diftrids. In the in 

 Country, the middle of July is the ordinary 

 time y the lambs, of courfe, beginning to 

 drop, about Clirilimas ; the month of 

 January being the principal time of 



LAMBING. 



In the treat m e n t of Ewes and Lambs, 

 I met Avith little obfcrvable, in this Dif- 



trid: 



* Thcfe remarks arc not intended more to explain my 

 own motives, for preferring an oldfafuioned breed, than 

 as hints to thofc v/ho have fimilar flocks in their poflcflion. 



