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less land than at present, kept 27 score breeding Norfolk 

 ewes, and sold the produce of lambs : now he has 35 score 

 South Down ewes, and keeps their produce, selling his 

 wool at 5s. a tod more tlian the Norfolk. 



In 1798, Mr. Money Hill sold a flock of Norfolks, 

 reckoned a very fine one, and they brought 34I. los. a 

 score, on the average. The next day he went to the 

 South Downs, and bought 1000 ewes, at 31I. a score 

 home : he culled 200 that were rather coarse-woolled be- 

 hind, or not well made, which he sold for 400I. to a 

 neighbour. In 1799 he lett one tup for lol. los. In 1800 

 he lett five at 5I. 5s. and eight at il. lis. 6d. In iBoi he 

 lett twelve for 237I. and one to various persons, sending 

 60 ewes, at los. 6d. each, besides 40 of his own, being 

 in all 50 guineas for one. In 1802 he lett ten for 254I. 3s. 

 His mode of letting is by a table of the number and price 

 at which they are put up at auction. In 1802 he sold 157 

 culled ewes for 368I. 



Mr. Hill estimates the difference of stocking between 

 Norfolks and South Downs, at one-third in favour of the 

 latter, in number, in better condition, and of greater 

 weight both in wool and carcass ; all fairly attributable to 

 the superiority of the breed, and free from any change of 

 lessening cattle, &c. V/ben his flock was of Norfolks, 

 scarcely one in a score had a whole fleece; but now they 

 are South Downs, scarcely one itl a score is broken. His 

 flock at Midsummer : 700 breeding ewes, 660 lambs, 45 

 rams. The wethers are grazed oflP in the spring, the last 

 lot going before the ewes lamb ; such as are short of shear- 

 lings go in their wool : culled ewes are sold in July, one, 

 two, and three years old. Crones fed and killed in har- 

 vest. Mr. Hill thinks that South Down stock-sheep 

 and hoggiis are generally shorn three weeks too soon, 

 when later there is more wool and better dipt: common 

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