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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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ſometimes reach even the© of twelve pounds,

put to the ram about the

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18 a ext n Mn h aftoar IA GE Re> Es 5 ewes avout a month aîter. Young rams are preferred, a

7 NIDO+ TA> AAG eie 1 I et E Î it 15 luppoled that old ones deg quaity and weight OrK S E ZE) I 4 SAA E I TUR Zh?

oí their wool. The wethers when two years

old, and fatted on attain the weight of about

RE| twenty-five pounds per quarter; and being driven to Briſtol market(a diſtance of near fixty miles) are ſold, without the| their fleece, in the months of N lay and June. Ak folding on the foreſt of Exmoor, or Vas adjoining hills, for two or three years, merely for the it of their fleeces; the weicht of which ſeldom 1 aP-“hey are fattened on turnips, and

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0Ne 1| Ne OXen OÙ this COUNntry are arge, Weli made, and beau-

anlinais.| ney are almoſt“ all rea![ hey arC yoked

FAL t three Vears old and woOI ked{112 th> ve Or(ix when r elo| ZES 5 Vis À eU LÀ LAI vw 49 Ss LE Y(9) Te| they are ſold to the oraz 1Lers, aî Drices Irom ten pounds to (N00!|-- zZ 4 | twet; I ot WOLLY- LVV OX arKêls|- |

o UED|°[ cd 4 4 4 * Js it not very extraordinary, that, in ſo hilly a country, this me-

ay be thod of manurine land ſhould be almoſt Perhaps the weight of their fleeces may indiſpoſe the ſheep for Iying too cloſe tg

gether, without creating the ſcab or ſome other diſorders.