=e PERM. OP Ee hee eee 
II. To the perfon who fhall breed in Bed- 
fordfhire, and produce at Woburn fheep- 
fhearing 1801, the beft two-fhear fat wether, 
five guineas —The fame perfon not to have 
both premiums. The name of the breedcr, 
together with the place where bred, to be 
duly certified, and given in at the time of 
fhearing. 
Committec. LonD SOMERVILLE, Mr. BEN- 
NET, Mr. T. Crook. 
Decifion. The four prize wethers died well, 
and have done great credit to the breeders. 
The judges, taking into confideration the 
injury which refults to the public from the 
praice of fattening animals on corn, are com- 
pelled to withold the firft prize from Mr. 
Moore; and to give it to Mr. Bithrey.. The 
fecond, or Eedfordthire prize is adjudged to 
Mr. Moore, carcafs and wool confidered. 
SoMERVILLE, J. BENNETT, T.- Crook 
Mr. Moore and Mr. Butfield, corn; Mr. Bith- 
rey and Mr. Cowley, nocorn, =~ 
Mr. Bitbrey’s Tws year-old Wether :—Weight 
alive after fhearing 183lb.3; carcafs ro5lb. 
8cz.3 wool 7lb. t2 oz.—20 alive, giverz dead. 
Mr. Cowleys —Weight alive atter fhearing 
1531b. Sez. 3: carcafs rcolb. 80z.3 wool slb. 
12 0z.~—20 alive give 124 dead. 
Mr. Butficld’s.—Weight alive after fhear- 
ing 1721b. 80z.3 carcafs 112lb.; wool 4lb. 
20z.—20 alive give 134 dead. 
Mr. Moore's. —Weight alive after fhearing 
1571b.; carcafs raslb. 80z. 5 wool 6lb. 1202. 
—z20 alive give 14 dead, 
Wool —Butfield 4lb. 20z. at r4d.—qs. 94. 
Moore 61b. 12 oz. at 11d.;—6s. 2%.Bithrey 71b. 
1202. at 103. —4s. 94, Cowley 5lb. 1202. at 
gd. 3—4s. 33. 
Premiums for Theaves bred in Bedfordfbire. | 
]. To the perfon who fhall breed in Bed- 
fordihire, and produce at Woburn-fhheep fhear- 
ing 1801, the beft theave——a cup, value ten 
guineas: 
Ii. To the perfon who fhall breed in Bed- 
fordthire and produce at Woburn fheep-fhear- 
ing 3801 the fecond-beft theave—a cup, 
value five guineas —The fame perfon not to 
have both premiums. 
Woburn Abbey, fune 17, 180r. 
” Committee -—T W. Coxe, Esa. Mr. Srug- 
zINS, of Notts. Mr. Sxkipwortu, of 
Lincoln fhire. 
Mr. Butfield, Mr. Moore, Mr. Platt, Mr. 
Cole, and Mr. Bitprey fhewed for the pre- 
miums. : 
Adjudged the firt premium to Mr. But- 
field and the fecend to Mr. Moore. 
Premium for encovraging Improvement in In- 
plements of Agriculivre——TVo the perfon who 
fhall produce at Woburn fheep fhearing, 1801, 
the beft and moft vfeful newly invented im- 
plement—the fum of twenty guineas, 
Woburn Abbey, June 18, 18ct. 
Committee. —LorD SOMERVILLE, ‘T. W. 
Core, Esq. Mr. Jounson, of Norfolk. 
Decifcr.—Mx. Leicefter’s improved culti- 
E 
Bedfordjbire.—Woburn Sheep-fhearing. 
Seas Se ert 
[Sep. 1, 
vator, being a heavy, four-horfe power, en- 
titled to no premium. iyit# 
Mr. Greave’s fcuffler, three-horfe power, 
not entitled to any premium, ee 
Mi. Gooch’s two-horfe plough at length, 
not entitled to-any premium. : 
There being one premium only, it is ad- 
judged to*Mr. Salmon, for his new invented 
turnip drill, remarkable for the ftraightnefs 
of its work. > 
Mr, Lefter, of Northampton, exhibited a 
chaff cutter, worked by two men and fed by 
a third, which cut eight bufhels in nine mt- 
nutes anda half. A patent machine. 
Rosert SALMON, Woburn, Bedfordhhire, 
undertakes to make his improved drilling and 
fowing machines of different defcriptions as 
under : 
Machine principally applicable for turnips or 
{mall feeds, at nine inches afunder, or lefs if - 
required, the feeders being capable of contain- 
ing three quarters of a pint each gl. 9s. 
The fame machine with the fhares made to 
fhift tu different diftances 12]. 11s. 
The fame machine with refervoirs to fup- 
ply the feeders, applicabie for fowing moft 
kinds. of grain, the refervoirs not lefs than 
one quarter of a peck for each drill 131. 13s. 
Exhibitions. —Mr. Wakefied*, of Burnham, 
in Efiex, exhibited a Suffolk ftallion, of the 
forrel punch breed, which was mucn admired. 
Mr. Infkip, of Old Warden, near Bigglef- 
wade, fhewed a fat pig, half of the Suffolk 
and half of the Chinefe breed, which rendered 
manifeft to every eye the great improvement 
effeéted in fwine. e 2 - 
Mir. Moore, of Bedfordthire, fhewed a fow 
of the Suffoli breed, of a form much ap- 
proved. 
Mr. Chaplin, of Tathwell, in Lincolnfhire, 
exhibited fome Lincoln rams, the fleeces of 
which were much admired: one, a two-fhear, 
weighed 171b. ; a three-fhear, rclb..3 a five- 
ficar, 124 1b. 5 and of a feven-fhear ewe, 1olb; 
Alfo a fat ewe, of which the following is an 
account—weight alive, after 24 hours fafting 
18ilb.; wool 121b. 8 0z.3 blood 6lb. 8 az. 3 en= 
trals 121b. 80z.3 pluck and head roib. soz. 3 
fkin171b. 4.0z.3 fat r5lb.; carcafs 1181b.—-To- 
tal, 1791b, 80z —20 alive give 13 dead. 20 
alive give 14% fat included. 
The Duke of Bedford killed the following 
South-Down ewe—Weight alive, after 26 
hours fafting 140lb.3 fkin $ib. 8 oz. 3 head and 
pluck 8lb. 8 0z.5 blood slb.; entrails S1b, 
8 oz.; fat 131b. 8 cz.—Total, q4lb. Net car- 
cafs 93lb. 80z.=-Total, 1271b. G0z. Loft 21b. 
pl es Le oy ee 
* This gentleman is a very noted cultivae 
tor. That he conduéts his bufinefs with no 
inconfiderable fpirit may be conje@tured from 
his having dibbled, ia 1800, 34% acres of 
_ wheat, all on clover lay or,bean ftubbles, ar * 
tes. Gd. an acre, one row ona flag, for hand- 
hoeing, which coft him jos. an acre: quan= 
tity of feed two to five pecks an acie, 
