| | | EASTERN CHALK: HILLS. 412 Tans, both breeds being bought in, about the same Melby time; namely, MicHaELMAS: when those > Most| of Wiltshire are about nine, those of Sussex Inding about six months old. Of the The pLacr OF PURCHASE, for the former, Ls of| is chiefly Weybill, for the latter, the fair of e and Lewes. N the. The Economy, or plan of management, S, of these WEDDER FLOcKs, has been, hereto= ds are fore, that of folding them, two summers, | and fatting them, the ensuing winter and eyed, spring. But the South Down breed, I be- ck, in| lieve, are more generally fatted, at two Hills, years old: turneps, hay, and cultivated her- this bage being the usual materials of fatting. ting In the sHEPHERDING of sheep, I met with little, that is rare or interesting, on this ewise Division of the Chalk Hills. Wilt- In folding, the ordinary calculation is ir the“ three sheep to a hurdle.”‘The hurdles Din of these hills(which are formed of hazel hich rods, in the wattle or fleak manner) are of different lengths; as seven to nine feet: | more 2 ner but the stakes’do not stand at more than fred seven feet and a half, on a par: so that, on be this calculation, each sheep has a space of ee eighteen or nineteen square feet: which is a opetly narrow space, for large sheep; and I have oth ot measured a fold, for two hundred six- tooth Wiltshire wedders, which was pitched | twentyfour yards, by twenty: thus allowing ys near twentytwo square feet, to each sheep. sree;,