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Produce of 116 ewe lamb?, bred by Mr. Bevan, a( 



Riddlesworth, 17^2 : 



116 



Adual profit ;£'.I20 i O 



Mr. Bevan was early in trying South Down sheep, 

 but finding them tender at lambing, went into a new Lei- 

 cester cross : these he abandoned, and got back to South 

 Downs, but still esteems them a tender breed, and that 

 they ought to have yards sheltered and littered for lambing 

 in bad weather; remarking, that all the farmers he knows 

 on the South Downs, have these yards for that purpose. 



Mr. Drake, of Eillingford, buys ewe-lambs in Au- 

 gust, selling them that time twelvemonth, folding the 

 ■whole year ; a great improvement on his hot gravelly 

 lands : wool included, he more than doubles his money. 



Mr. Hart, of ElUingfold, all South Downs, except a 

 few Leicesters. He and Mr. Bloomfield were gone, 

 when T called, to Mr. ScR ace's sale in Sussex. 



Loddon and Clavering hundreds are no sheep coun- 

 tries ; there are a few, and South Downs and Leicesters 

 have been creeping in. 



In Flcg one scarcely sees any sheep : I was told that 

 Mr. Christmas, at Billocby, has some Norfolk ewes, 

 but the number inconsiderable. Bullocks ths general stock. 



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