462 BREEDS, CROSSES, &C. 



This year (1802), there were but two pens of Nor- 

 folk lambs at a fair in this neighbourhood ; not many years 

 since there were no others : at present chiefly half-bred. 



Mr. Petre, of Westwick, keeps 17 score in a coun- 

 try where flocks are not common ; he has some South 

 Downs but more Norfolks. 



Mr. Repton, at Oxnead, keeps fifty breeding ewes 

 of the New Leicester kind, which answer greatly : Nor- 

 folks are so mischievous to fences, that he does not like to 

 have any thing to do with them. 



Mr. Reeves, of Heveringland, buys in lambs, and 

 sells them shearlings from the fold. Tried half-bred 

 South Downs from Mr. Dursgate, which paid him 

 better than Norfolks, and he likes them so much better, as 

 to intend continuing to buy this sort in preference. 



Mr. Birch AM, at Hackford, declares against having any 

 favourites ; he has generally bought Norfolks, and half- 

 bred lambs ; some few South Downs, but they did not an- 

 swer : has had some Leicesters : any sort he can get worth 

 his money. Little farmers who keep a few sheep, find the 

 polled breeds very convenient from their quietness, and 

 therefore prefer them. Norfolk lambs bred near Cro- 

 mer, were bought by Mr. G. Jones at 14s. were run on 

 stubbles in the autumn, and put to turnips at Christmas, 

 then to layers of the first year, probably as the best food 

 for sheep, and sold shearling wethers at Michaelmas at 

 55s. each ; 20 to 241b. a quarter. 



Colonel BuLLER, at Haydon, is convinced that Nor- 

 folks answer better than South Downs : shearlings come 

 sometimes to 20 and 251b. a quarter, and have had I9|lb. 

 of tallow ; he has a breeding flock of 400 : sold his 

 wether lambs at 26s. and his ewe lambs at 24s. 



Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, has 40 score of South 

 Downs, which he has been rearing these six years, hav- 

 ing bought many ewes and got good tups. He has, how- 

 ever, 



