'at 1s, 2d. per Ib.===

888 Merino& Leicester Sheep.[D2E7

ing crop of turnips. Repeating my wish that my hints may"

meet with a-fair trial, and a report be made of the resultin

Some future vumber of your magazine, 1 remain, Sir,&cC.

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ÄGRICOLA NORFOLCIENSIS.

Pray, has any thing more been Said or done in the experi- mental way with respect tothe“ Kolrhabi," a plant well Spoken of, and of which you gave us a drawing Some time Since? 1s the sced to be had any where?|

COMPARATIVE VIEW OF MERINO AND LEICES- TER SSIEEP, To the Iditor of the Agricultural Magazine. Srk,; ASTORIVUS having requested the opinion of Some of

your readers, on the controversy between Mr. Bartley

and himself, on the comparative merits of the Merino and

Leicester Sheep, I hall not 1 presywe, by addressing a few

Jines to you on that subject, incur the displeasure of either of the above gentlemen, who have been so long and ably em- ployed in its discussSion.=-Had Mr. B. gone 00 farther than asserting that Merinos are, on any land wbere they will remain in good health,(and[ See no reason why they Should not on our best pastures) 4he most profitable, during the present relative price of long and 5hort waol; in my opinion It would have been very dificult, it not imposstble, for any one to bave confüted him."That they proguce an equal quantity of mutton per acre as the Leicester, is what I thought the most Zealous advocate of the breed wonld never have contended for. And Mr. B. by doing it, rather injured than benefitted his Ccause. During the present price ot their wool, it.is not De- cessary they Should produce an equal quantty.of mutton to be much more profitable than the Leicesters, as 1 think the following estimate of the value of each, immediately atter the Second Shearing, when hey would be about twenty-5ix months old will prove.|

Value ofthe LEICESTER. L-'S.D. MERINO. L.S.D. One hundred pounds ot] Fitty-Six 1bs.

mutton, at 7d. a pound,€ 2 184 lof mutton,“47 12 8

sinking We offal-=„= 7d. per Ib.

Fourteen pounds of wool Twelve 96 19G4 wool, at 45. 6d. Z140

13148 14 68

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