168 On the Value of Sheep as Fattening Stock.[March, if it is desired to drill on fag i. e. the inverted sward of a clover ley, substitute an iron wheel with a triangular pointed rim, load the wheel with stones or lead, place an horse before, and going up the middle of each furrow, the seed will be re- gularly deposited in the groove cut by the wheel. Harrow as before. If the furrows are straight, the corn will appear as regular as any horse-drill whatever can place it. Ifthe length of time which such a process requires 1s objected, T an- sWer, that it 1s not designed for the use of those who have to sow 50 or 60 acres per day, but of those only, whose object is to sow 20 or 30 only in a season; and to such, the loss of a few hours is not of consequence sufficient to over balance the advantages to be gained by drilling their corn: and when these advantages can be purchased at so easy a rate,(about 30 or 32 shillings) there are few, I should suppose, if they are not blind to their own interests, but would make a trial with the proposed implement, subject to such further improvements as an ingenious workman may suggest. IL am, Sir, your's,&c.

AGRICOLA NORFOLCIENCIS.

55 R tuf Me TF, ig IEE— ON THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF SHEEP AS FATTENING STOCK. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine, SIR,

HERE appeared in your Magazine for February an ex- tract from the papers of the Bath Agricultural Society, containing the result of an experiment, made to ascertain the most profitable of sìx breeds of sheep, viz. the Leicester, Cots= wald, South-down, Dorset, Wilts, and Mendip. As it was conducted under the inspection of Mr. Billingsley, a man whose name stands high in the estimation of the agricultural world; and as sìx individuals, each of them, sent the sheep which they supposed to be the most profitable, and who would each ſeel themselves interested in the success of their favourite breed, any unprejudiced person would have thought that the most profitable would have been clearly ascertained; but I conſess, had not the names of the parties who supplied the sheep, and of him under whose inspection the trial was said to bave been made, been stated by you; s0 far from sup- posïng it the communication of an enlightened agriculturist, to the fixst agricultural society in Europe, I should baye thought it the produetion of some person prejudiced against the Leicester sheep, who thought there mght be some small chance of injuring them in the opinion of those at a distance from where the experiment was said to have been made: and as in 1792 there were many counties in which they had sCcarcely