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difference was very considerable, and might have been 

 discerned half a mile off. This experiment made Mr. 

 Overman give up folding, except when his flock was 

 in a salt-marsh ; and Mr. Tuttle, a neighbour, assert- 

 ed, he would never fold at all had he no marslies. Nor 

 does Mr. Etheridge, of Stanhow, fold. These fads 

 should be combined with another, that of heatlis and sheep- 

 walks, that have been fed with sheep for centuries, but 

 those sheep constantly folded on other lands, are so far 

 from improving, that they are to all appearance as poor as 

 they could have been at any former period. — Notc^ sorm 

 years past. 



Mr. Stylkman, at Snettisham, turned his flock loose, 

 and without folding, in 20 acres of ol/ond every night, for 

 the same period that would have folded it in the common 

 manner. The sheep did much better than they would 

 have done had they been folded ; the face of the herbage 

 materially improved during the period, and upon plough- 

 ing it up for wheat, the crop was equal to what it would 

 have been with folding, and shewed, by a regular verdure, 

 that they had distributed the manure equally in every part. 



Mr. Styleman conceives that lambs sell 3s. a head 

 lower on account of folding, than they would do without 

 it ; but this is only his opinion. He thinks also that the 

 ewe is much injured. 



Mr. Pitts, of Thorpe Abbots, finds that no mucking, 

 on his burning gravels, will do so much good as the fold, 

 and especially on a white clover and tr^'foil layer for 

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When I had formerly the pleasure of being at Hough- 

 ton, I have ofterj urged Lord Orfohd to break up a 



heath 



