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you will get more bone, and inevitably lofe fo 

 much fat or thrift; and, as you will lofe it 

 gradually, you may go too far in increafing 

 the bulk of your iheep, before you perceive 

 it : and thrift in all animals intended to be 

 fattened, is the object which mould be mod 

 carefully attended to. 



Let the fort of wool be according to the in- 

 tended fituation; for I am of opinion, that 

 every fort of wool may be grown on one fort 

 of flefh 5 and there are good and bad-flefhed 

 animals of all defcriptions. 



Rams of different ages have been recom- 

 mended by many different perfons: I have 

 tried them from one year to ten years old, 

 and never found any material difference in 

 the flock in refpect to quality ; but in quan- 

 tity I certainiy have. It may eafily be fup- 

 poled that a ram two or three years old 

 will get more flock than one ten years old. 

 The proper number of ewes for a fhearling 

 ram is from fifty to fixty. I have turned a 

 two-fhear ram to nine fcore of ewes, and of 

 that number only five miffed. I had that tup 

 from Mr. Chaplin •, my men called him the 

 Grand Seignor : but I queflicn whether his 



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