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«Sif Norfolk and South Down, all the year, except while in 

 turnips; and Mr. Eeck, at Massingham, wlio has 35 score 

 South Downs, folds tlicni as regularly as any Norfolks. 



At Hillingdon, all either Norfolks or half-breds, a 

 Leicester tup on a Norfolk ewe. Captain Beacher 

 thinks there are no sheep in the island which the Leicester 

 will not improve. He has grazed many Wiltshires, and 

 thinks them the best of all for cole-grazing in the fens. 



Mr. Beck, of Castle Riseing, has had South Downs 

 13 vears, beginning with some from Mr. Tyrrels, of 

 Lamport, and has imported three or four times since. He 

 has now 8co, and is quite convinced of their superiority 

 to Norfolks: when he was in that breed he had not half 

 the number; but after abating fully for improved hus- 

 bandry, and every other circumstance, he is clear that 

 theie is a superiority of four to three. His fences are 

 and must be bad, and in such a farm quietness is a vast 

 objefi : his farm 486 acres. He gained the first prize for 

 ewes both the last and this year at Svvafham, and also at 

 Holkham. I examined his flock attentively, and it cer- 

 tainly is a very beautiful one. His wool now averages 

 eight to a tod, equally of hogs and ewes: his Norfolks 

 todded twelve : he is clear that, take the country through, 

 they average half as much again as Norfolks. Before he 

 took the farm there were 50 sheep on it, and a dairy of 

 cows. What an impro\ement I 



In the vicinity of Downham are found all sorts of 

 breeds: to^vards the river, Lincoiqs and Leicesters; higher 

 up, Norfolks and Sautji Downs. Mr. Saffor.y likes 

 the South Downs best, but thinks that if as much care 

 and attention had been exerted to improve the breed of 

 Norfolks as the South Downs have experienced, they 

 would by this time have been a very different sheep. Nor- 



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