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iheep will, in that neighbourhood, foon 

 be advanced five hundred per cent. This 

 inftance proves, that the breed of fheep in 

 the Moor counties, ought, by all means, ta 

 be improved. It is a matter that equally 

 concerns the landlord, the farmer, and the 

 nation. The firir. is bound, by an hun- 

 dred confiderations, to exert himfelf in (o 

 important a matter, not to leave their te- 

 nants to continue in the old route, till an 

 accidental man, from another part of the 

 kingdom, (the cafe with Mr. Culey,) ari- 

 fes among them, with better ideas than 

 his neighbours. Improvements depend 

 greatly on landlords : But when we view 

 fuch millions of acres of improveable 

 racors, as wafle as when ravaged by the 

 fury of the Sc&ttijh borderers -, when we 

 hear of flocks of forty thoufand fheep, that, 

 inftead of folding, are milked, and the whole 

 profit twelve-pence a head, we furely can- 

 not but conclude, that the landlords are 

 afleep. Were they frozen in the fnows of 

 Cheviot, their hufbandry could not be more 

 contemptible. 



That the profit of fheep may be pufhed 

 very high, we find by the average above 

 1 5 s. being i /. 3 s. \d. which is confi- 

 derable, the weight per fleece 8 11?. This 

 fhews ftrongly the effect of having a good 



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