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plishing so desirable a purpose. The short horned York- shire Holderness cow is the most esteemed here, both for milking and fattening. Perhaps Mr. Turnell, of Stokeham, has applied himself more to the breeding of beasts, than any person in this part of the county. As to sheep, having myself been so little conversant with them, I must beg leave te refer you to others better informed.

fam sorry I cannot give you so much intelligence upon the dairy as I wish to have done, not having had sufficient early notice of the enquiry, as it would require a due observation for some years, to come at the produétion of a dairy farm, people not being in the habit of either keeping clear accounts or burthening their memories with the profits or losses incident thereto. At Fledbre the farms are not very large, perhaps from eighty to one hun- dred and fifty acres in a farm; the principal occupation is confined to the dairy, though some of them feed very good bullocks thereon. The most correét account I can make out, respecting the production of cheese is, that one

-cow will produce about three hundred pounds weight of

cheese, upon an average, during the summer season.

Calves are much better fed upon linseed pottage mixed with new milk, in the proportion of one third of good mucilage to two-thirds milk; they thrive much better, rest a great deal, and the veal is generally finer; at least the butchers who purchase mine thus fed, tell me so. I have also bred calves in the same manner, only with this dif- ference, when three weeks old, we give them old milk instead of new, and the same quantity of the linseed, viz. one third. The linseed is put into cold water, and heated over a slow fire(one pint to two gallons) for two or three hours, scarcely suffered to boil, then passed through a hair sieve. Warming the linseed saves the trouble of warming the milk.

Having been much employed as surveyor and com- missioner for inclosures, you may expect much information