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which I bring to bed with and tread down, and even pare waste land in lanes, to make compost with ditch stuff, fern, lime, rushes, dead gorse,&c.-—-By this management you may judge how I am straitened in the article of manure. Having two dove cotes, I use about ten chaldrons of dove manure every year, either on turnip land, or winter corn, with advantage. Stzckleback manure exceeds all other that I have ever tried, as a present or lasting manure; but alas! I have not been able to get any for these last ten years: I used it then in tillage, and its effect is visible to this day. Whale blubber is to be procured from. Hull, but the price asked is discouraging.

Of sheep I have two sorts, the one which I call my upland sort, of the Lincolnshire pasture breed.“The hogs, run about three to the tod of twenty-eight pounds; the ewes, five or six.

As to my lowland flock, 1 began to breed from the Weighton, Yorkshire Limestone sheep, which was a small, compact, short wooled, hardy sort, and suited extremely well; but for many years I have crossed with the shortest wooled forest sort. J have now a flock of Scotch sheep, with black noses and feet. They are very hardy, and very round and compaét in their make, and short wooled; these have been crossed by an excellent short-wool forester, and my lamb hogs are as beautiful as can be. My ewes of this sort, are this present season in lamb by a tup I bought with a flock of ewes, from Sutton Colefield. They promise to do very well upon my land, and I expect much from the cros- sing my breed. I never thought any thing about the rot, till the year before last, when I lost several, and again this year I had a loss amongst those I kept on; but it is very remarkable, that the Scotch ewes, which are now three years old, have escaped the rot altogether, though on the same sort of land, and when every body suffered greatly: these ewes turned out their lambs themselves, almost fat, giving as much milk as would rear two lambs each, and this without exception. I sold the wool of my short wool

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