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My father was famed for the bed breed of 

 black horfes — horfes of mod action and great- 

 eft, power. The horned cattle were of a very 

 good mixed breed, well inclined to feed* We 

 ufed to draw eight pair of oxen to do the farm- 

 ing bufinefs, and kept what may be termed a 

 large dairy. The fheep, at one time, if not 

 the bed, were certainly not much inferior to the 

 bed iri this ifland. I fpeak of a period long 

 before Mr. Bakewell's famous breed, which is 

 fuppofed to have been produced from the dock 

 of Mr. Stow, of Bi lib y, about four miles from 

 the place of my birth. My father hired rams 

 of Mr. Stow. We had very good pigs. Of 

 grafs-land my father was an excellent manager ; 

 by his great attention to furface-draining, he 

 converted a farm remarkable for rotting fheep 

 into a perfectly (bund and thriving padure. 

 As a proof of this, he did not in the lad thirty 

 years lofe a fcore of fheep, although in one year 

 there was a general rot all over the ifland j but 

 in that year he did not lofe more than fix, or 

 fiven at the mod. 



My father hzd a farm at Salfleetby, one at 

 Trudhorpe, and another at Skegned: thefc 

 *hree farms were all in what is termed the 

 Marshes, and confided entirely of grafs-land. 



