450 . BREEDS, CROSSES, &C. 



folks and South Downs : his former flock was 800 Nor- 

 folks, SELLING all the ■produce : he planted 700 acres, 

 and now has 800 South Downs, keeping a// the pro^ 

 duce. 



Mr. Coke's New Leicester hogs and theaves produced 

 81b. of wool each in 1802, yet they had been hard kept 

 on seeds fed very bare. 



Of all the crosses of sheep Mr. Coke has tried, none 

 strikes him so much as that of a New Leicester tup and 

 a Norfolk ewe : the change is almost total, to a degree 

 that is extraordinary indeed. I viewed the hoggits of this 

 cross, and found them enveloped in about 71b. of long 

 wool ; no horns ; faces, some white ; and the form sur- 

 prizingly improved. — (Note, some years back). 



In 1803 I found his opinion changed, from much expe- 

 rience ; so that he prefers the cross of a South Down ram 

 on a Norfolk ewe to that of a Leicester ram. 



Mr. Hoste has had the same cross, and they come to 

 321b. a quarter, at two- shear. He put a Norfolk tup and 

 a Bakewell tup at the same time to the same parcel of 

 Norfolk ewes, and at Sc. Ive's fair sold the lambs fat at six 

 or seven months old, and the Bakewells brought just 

 double the price of the Norfolks. 



Mr. Coke, in April 1799, sending Norfolk, South 

 Down, and New Leicester three-shear wethers to Smith- 

 field, that had been fed together, the return : £. s. d. 



Average per head, Norfolks - - - _ ^ o o 



Leicesters ----------42 2 



South Downs ---------372 



Ditto, fleeces included, the others being in 



their coats ---------3 15 3 



And in May following above 100 going, the South 

 Downs beat the new Leicesters by 2s. a head. 



Mr. Money Hill, at Waterden, with about 500 acres 



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