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the incloſures, and ſent back to the commons in April; the wedder hoggrels are always‘wintered the firſt year on the low grounds at the expence Of 2a Head, are ſent back to the commons about the ſame time with the ewes, and remain there till they are ſold to the grazier, They may fetch at an average 11s. a piece; add to this the value of the wool, and 15s. may be about the ſum received for every wedder ſheep that arrives at the age of four years and a half.

Scotch hogs are bought at about 8s. 6d. a piece, and are kept two years upon the commons, when they may Deiwörih rosódior 11s additoithis the price oftlnee fleeces of wool, and the whole ſum received for every ſheep delivered may be about 145.; from this ſubtraét the original price, two years intereſt of the money, expence of herding for the firſt two months, of thrice waſhing and clipping, of twice ſalving, the value of the riſk of bad payment from the drover or grazier, the loſs by fraying, and, what is often much more confiderable, by death, and ſay what profit remains.

It has been computed that one third of all the ſheep in Weſtmoreland died in 1792. Great calamities are often exaggerated, though no doubt the loſs muſt have been prodigious when it was eftimated ſo high.

Twenty ſhillings are reckoned an ordinary profit for keeping a Scotch beaſt a' year; ſubtra@- from this the price of wintering on the low grounds and in the ſtraw- yard, intereſt of the coſt, value of the riſk of drovers, loſs by death from fatigue eſtimated at 27 per cent, by diſeaſe, and now and then by one tumbling into a peat- moſs, and ſay what advantage ariſes from this adven- ture.

Seven ſhillings and fſixpence are thought an ordinary profit for keeping a little Scotch beaſt on a common from May to OQtober; make the fame dedudtions as in the for-

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