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gubsequent and timorovs hand-hoeings, and thinning the plants. It would be a public Servige,;it A. N. would BEWE the goodness to State in your miscellany, the weight of a maximum crop to be obtained in NOTEN 0 it Tweould be a good datum to Shame the slovens, and to direct the opposition pend- ing the discussion of the genera] question.

The' favour would be gratifying to me, for excepting Some en ifling experiments of my own, 1 never have Seen a crop of turnips after the Northumbrian method; Such, as 1 hinted be- fore, 15 the tardy progress of Improve EEN But after treely cConfessing to you, Sir, that my favourite is the potatve, ever more 80 than Merino Sheep; 1 will beg leave in this engage- ment, to rest on my arms awhile, bebolding with no small Share of interest, vou may be assured, the tactical evolutions of the embattled forces.

In your last number, on the weight of bone in Merino Sheep, 1 expressed a hope Shortly to introduce 80me mutton, but 1 have not yet done with lamb, Since then, a new cace has arizen, not more flattering to Merino breeders than un- expected by me. Yezterday I slaughtered for my own use, a* lamb about five months old, halt blood Leiecster, and half Merino, and the hind quarter proved to be equal in weight to the fore quarter, 1. e. thirteen pound each. IL mistake not, this is a point on which Leicester breeders value ihemselves nat a little, and perbaps, it is a point, wirinzscally valuable. The youth who slaughtered, apprentice to a first

rate Bath butcber, after having ascertained the weight of the fore quarter, predicted the hind quarter would be a pound or two lighter. The butcher I mostly employ lives at the village wherein I reside, in his absence I casually met with the otber; 3 it was the first instance of his having Slaughtered a Sheep of the Merino blood, and if he expreszcd his 8 SUrprise on a Slini- Jarity of weight in the quarters, he was no less Surprised on the weight of he whole, and on the general appearance of the carcase. declaring he never had Seen a lamb of any descrip- tion more full of fat, af a finer colour, or of greater weight ſor the age, He ZHG with me to day on Ssome of the 100% for his civility--but 1 hope Pastorius will not conjeeture that 1 mean 10 divert his opinion from the truth. I shall experi- ment on the bone of this lamb, and faithfully record, for Pas- torius hath incrcased my furoy in this way, which preyiously

was thougbt by many to rage suÜciently. 1 request you to jusert another case in application to wool, the primary ob»

& A ram lamb--a chilver never goes to the knife--for theſe I offer, two uineas each at weaning time, ifthe produce of my own Stock trom Ryeland 9r South-down ews,