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1801.] On the Fattening of Small Welſh Cattle. 393

- where graſs land has been once brought into good condition, it is

poſſible to preſerve it'in a produdtive and profitable ſtate without the aſſiſtance of any additional manure, by grazing it frequently with ſheep, and by letting thoſe ufeful animals lie much upon 1E

White Webb Farm, A. WILKINSON, M.D. Enfield Chace, Fune 18, 1801.

ONATHE FATTENING OF SMALL WELSH ú CATER To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. SIR»

AM juſt returned from’ a trout-fiſhing excurſion, which T uſually make to Bibu1y, a beautiful village, among the Cetſwold Hills of Glouceſterſhire, and amongſt a number of the moſt ſkilful and intelligent farmers that are perhaps to met with in the who!e extent of his Majeſty's dominions. This year I have been dabbling in other matters beſides water and fiſh: [ either have, or conceive that I have, received ſome ſmall por- tions of agricultural information, and have made a few obſerva- tions, which may perhaps prove not wholly uninterefting, nor totaliy uninſtrudlive to a certain claſs of your readers.

The fiye-ſhift huſbandry, as it is called, prevails here(a no- ble’pattern to the proprietors of almoſt all new inclotures) with the utmoſt regularity and perfe&ion, Æñd with aſtoñiſhing pro- duétiveneſs on foils the moſt ſhallow, añd natural’y the moſt barren of any that have ever been thought worthy of culture. Here, every thing is done with ſo much ſimplicity and ſyfem, that it‘appears to me the eaſieſt of all things to bécome a good farmer. And, indeed, in this, and almoſt every country, the man that has a ſufficient capital and ſufficient humility in himſelf to follow cloſely the footíteps of his neighbours; will, I think, moſt aſſuredly become a good farmer.

1 have more than once written, with'a degree of warmth, on the utility aÑd neceſſity of giving encouragement to the breed of large cattle, particularly of that breed which 1s found almoſt ex- lufively in Herefordſhire;“and permit me now to relate what I have heard in favour of a very differens ſock, the ſmall Welch cattle.

A farmer in the neighbourhood of Bibury, whoſe ſkill in agri- culture, and means. of applying it, are in proportion to the lize of his farm, which 4s large, and who has annually more than 3009 acres of rye graſs and ciover paſture, perceiyáng, almoſt inva-

riably, that his rye graſs grew too fait upon hîs fneep, in ſpring andthe earlier part of ſummer, and run to bent and to wäáſte, vas determined to try to turn this quick growth of his rye graſs into