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good wethers may be clipped two tods of wool, 

 the wool being frequently fourteen inches long. 

 Allowing, then, one acre of land to keep, during 

 winter and fummer, fix fheep, we have fix {tone 

 of wool, which, at one guinea per tod, amounts 

 to 3^ is. 6d. But two acres of this land fre- 

 quently feed a beaft likewife: therefore, if a 

 bead pays feventy fhillings by feeding for one 

 fummer on two acres, by allowing thirty-five 

 fhillings for one acre, you have an aggregate 

 fum of 7/. This kind of land is managed at 

 very little expence : and the profits are great at 

 prefent. Sheep on the land laft-mentioned are 

 better when of a larger fize, than thofe kept in 

 places diftant only a few miles from a good mar- 

 ket. Sheep of a year old or under cannot bear 

 the fatigue of driving from one to two hundred 

 miles, like thole which by age have acquired 

 their full vigour \ and the expence offending 

 a large or fmall one to market is the fame* 



The large fort of fheep pay for their food by 

 the great increafe in bulk, and will live and 

 thrive on lands improper for fattening cattle 

 and other kinds of fheep. Of fuch land there 

 are large quantities in the Lincolnfhire mar- 

 Hies. And the wool, from fituation and for 



profit 



