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ef the South Down; but they not only require much more time to bring them into that state, but there is also a much inferior degree of uniformity of size in a Wiltshire than in a South Down flock, both ewes and lambs. These circum- stances seem satisfactorily to account for an item in the report—that lambs and turned-off ewes of the South-Down flock produce higher prices in the markets than those of the same description from the Wiltshire.

This Report was approved at the Annual Meeting, and

| the premium awarded accordingly.

Arricte XVIII.—On the most profitable Size of Farming Cattle. By Cuartes Gorpon Grey, Esq.

Here a few hints from his own experience of fifteen years, are submitted by this gentleman to the consideration of the Bath Society. He observes, that the first aim of the stock breeder, as well as the grazier, ought to be—‘the ove to breed that animal whose disposition is most inclined to feed; the other, to produce the animal fat at an early age. By these means the supply will be greater for the consumer, The smaller animal(generally) has a more natural disposition to

fatten, and requires(proportionably to the larger)less food to

make it fat; consequently the greater quantity of meat for consumption can be made per acre. In stad] feeding, whatever may be the food, the smaller animal pays most for

that food. In dry /ands, the smaller is always suf-

ficiently heavy for treading. In wet lands less injurious.; As to milk, the smaller animal produces more goods for 4 the food she consumes than the greater. As to the yoke,! where oxen are of service, the middling sized are to be : preferred.

« As to sheep,” he says,‘I beg this Society to look to the premiums given for South Down sheep; where five South

Down sheep to three Wiltshire have been kept on the same

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