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reliable basis to calculate from. This figure, it will be found, is the 
main element which will govern profit or loss. 
The above amount, bl. 13s. 11c?., represents the gross gain per 
head of this one lot of cattle, which is above the average. From it 
will have to be deducted the farm expenditure, which is on an 
average about 3?. 18s. per acre, but taking the average of the whole 
of the cattle grazed in 1891 the gross gain was 5?. 7s. %\d. Deducting 
from this the average farm expenditure, rent, rates and taxes, farm 
labour, &c., 3?. 18s., leaves an average net gain per acre of 1?. 9s. &\d. 
With this I am content. I do not expect to make more than 22s. 
or 23s. an acre on an average of years. The land feeds one beast to 
a.n acre, and I charge myself 21. 10s. an acre for it. In 1891, stores 
were bought at about the proper price — profit or loss, as I have said, 
depends upon this. 
I have lost money for four or five years in consequence of stores 
being bought too dear. The live- weight gain has been satisfactory, 
the cattle have dressed a good percentage of carcass, and I have 
sold them well, all by live weight, and at the top live-weight quota- 
tions of the day, or close upon them. 
Westley [^Richards. 
CLUN FOREST SHEEP 
Although for many years Clun Forest mutton has been of high 
repute in the north-western counties, and has been recognised as of 
the choicest quality in the London markets, there has not hitherto 
been the showyard distinction of separate classes for the repre- 
sentation of the breed. This year, however, it appears in the list 
of specific breeds for which prizes are offered at the Warwick 
Meeting in J une next. The breed has acquitted itself creditably in 
many show yards during recent years, and these successes, together 
with the fact that a fixity of type is being established, have entitled 
it to this recognition. The successes hitherto obtained have been 
gained when in competition with the Radnor Forest sheep, and 
other Forest breeds ; and the prize lists during the last fifteen or 
twenty years show a highly satisfactory record — the more so in that 
it has been a progressive one. In view of the probability of 
specimens of the Clun Forest breed of sheep being present in 
the Warwick Showyard, the following notes may prove of interest. 
The value of the Clun Forest sheep is evidenced not only in 
its showyard successes, but in the circumstance that, together with 
the Radnor Forest sheep, it is very keenly sought after in a wide 
district beyond the distinctly Forest country in which it is raised. 
The ewes are now eagerly bought up at markets far from their 
original home, and the numbers of these which are disposed of for 
the purpose of producing lambs to be fattened out, and sold as early 
fat lamb, are sufficient to prove that the ^breed is highly valued. 
