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annually reared for succession stock, which/ with feeding cattle, 

 made the number wintered generally exceed 100 head. The last 

 season upwards of 60 head had been stall-fed, entirely on the pro- 

 duce of the farm (having stall-room for so many at once). They 

 were all finished-up together, and sent to Smithtield. 



Sheep. The flock was very considerable, amounting to near 

 1700. Lord Anson had fixed upon the South Down breed as the 

 staple flock, of which he possesses <a capital flock, of good sym- 

 metry and sound constitutions. At the show of live stock by the 

 Staffordshire Agricultural Society, at Lichfield, Lord Anson has 

 obtained gold medals for the best short-wool rams, as well as ewes. 

 These ewes, we are informed, will feed when full grown from 18 Ibs. 

 to 20 Ibs. the quarter, and the wethers at two years old to 20 Ibs. 

 or more : produce of wool, yearling hoggets (not having been shorn 

 as lambs) 4 Ibs. average fleece; ewes ditto, 3| Ibs. average, and 

 some of the ram fleeces 6 Ibs. each. The wool has been sold at 

 2s. 6d. per Ib. The fat wethers of this flock have found their way 

 to Smithfield, where they have been sold for first-rate prices. 



The EARL of BRADFORD has made very great improvements 

 upon his demesne, at WESTON, both in an ornamental and in an 

 agricultural point of view. He has drained the land, and intro- 

 duced a spirited and successful system of agriculture upon his 

 farm. 



The turnip husbandry is managed upon the one-bout Northum- 

 berland ridge, and his Lordship raises abundant crops of this most 

 useful plant. 



The ploughing is wholly done with two horses a-breast, and is 

 conducted by an able Norfolk ploughman. The arable land is ma- 

 naged according to the Norfolk system, for which sort of hus- 

 bandry the soil of the farm is for the most part very well adapted. 

 Lord Bradford's Devon cattle are in the highest repute, having 

 been judiciously selected, at a great expence, and they have an- 

 swered all the expectations that were formed of them. The 

 sheep stock are South-downs, bred from the flocks of the Duke of 

 Bedford, and Mr. Coke, and are remarkably neat and good. The 

 Pigs are of the Suffolk kind, having a great aptitude to fatten, 

 with very little offal. The whole farming concern is conducted in 

 a masterly style, and the noble Earl, both by his example and in- 

 fluence, has largely contributed to the improvement of the Agri- 

 culture of the County. 



The demesne at WROTTESLEY affords an excellent specimen of 



