300 On the Breed of Sheep.(May-

oxen are preferable to horses, as the former draw more stea- dily, and are not 80 unmanagable when the Ssod is on stiff ground. It must further be observed that in beginning ſhe work a breadth of the width of the two cutters Should be pre- viously cut out; by which means the cutting iron takes the S0d at a proper depth, and does the business as 500n as the dravght commences. It continues the work as long as the land continues level and of the length of the 5od required.

This machine has further the advantage that the walks can immediately be formed where they are wanted, in fields or meadows; and in walks already finished it will be useful to Pare the bottoms and Sides, after which the garderer has only to rake the walks and roll them.

By trivial alterations in placing'the coulters of this plough, „grass Sods may be-expeditiously cut for the formation ot banks, Melihoungue, huis,&c. in any form required, and it bids fair to be an implement of general and extensive use.'

This machine may be advantageously employed for eutting 5ods,&c. on waste lands and old pastures, preparatory tv burning the 50ds and bringing the land into culture,

EPE; ON THE BREED OF SHEEP. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine.

S11,; April 29th, 1805.

HAV E,now to acknowledge the favour ot Mr. Bartley's ZI Paper in your last magazine, and to request his attention to my last letter to you, which I hope will be published in your number for this month.

My calls for assistance from Some breeders of the new Leicester Sheep, have been ungsuccessfu]l; and unfortunately, instead of receiving the aid I expected, I have now to combat

the remarks of an additional advocate for ihe Merino breed.

"This tardinees on the part of the breeders of the new Leices-

ter, will probably be considered by my opponents, as a proof that my cause is deemed untenable. Let them not, however, decide too hastily.;

It appears to me that these breeders are perfectly Satisfed fhat rhe new-Leicester Sheep will maintain their ground, against all opposition, by their Superior merits alone; and that of course, my inferiority in point of ability, will be more tban counterbalanced by the goodness of my cause. This is, doubt- Jess, the reasoning by which they are influenced; I must, how- ever, obzerve to them, that there are many instances of tri- umph in the defence of bad causes which have arisen entire- 1y from the Superior faculties of their advocates; that they are