45^ BREEUS, CROSSES, ict. 



Mr. Bakevvell, on the same occasion^ gavr as his 

 opinion, that there is no comparison between the Norfolks 

 and South Downs ; that the latter are much better for any 

 kind of food, for folding, or for any purpose, than the for* 

 mer, except the flavour of tiie mutton. 



Mr. Samuel Thorn, at Kimberly, buys weiher 

 lambs in August, at I2s. or 14s. ; keeps them highly ; 

 ■winter-feeds on turnips ; tlicn on clover ; turnips a second 

 time ; and sells, six weeks after Christmas, at 36s. each : 

 1791. This was mentioned as a profitable system with 

 Norfolks; but if wool makes the profit 25s. they do not 

 pay above ^d. a week. 



Experiment by Mr. Grow. — '^ About Michaelmas I 

 put ten Norfolk, ten Leicestershire, and ten South Down 

 •wether hoggit lambs to turnips, that they might learn to 

 eat them readily, and let them remain together till the 6th 

 of November, when the ten Leicestershire, the ten South 

 Down, and nine of the Norfolk (one having died) were 

 numbered, weigiied, and put each sort by themselves, into 

 three pieces of wheat stubble, of one acre each, separated 

 by hurdles, and I provided at the same time three other 

 pieces of the like size, and separated in the same manner, 

 to shift them into. They were fed upon turnips, topped, 

 and tailed, measured to them in bushel skeps, with great 

 cxa(5lness, from that time till the 14th March, and thei) 

 i^'eighed again. 



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