The Sun.
London, England, 1811-07-02 00:00:00

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tea, and Mr. Pi.V3v, with acre %lie- tint -to adopt
the sptern of 1-rigation, Mr. CoRE said, that the
Colonel Fitzroy .141 d ciaimed the Prize for
Water Mvadows a Silver Tea-pot and Cteam
Ewer were therefore ordrred to be sent to him, for
irrigating twenty aeres.
Matthe Ns, shepherd., to Mr. J.
Blotntield, of Wathani, had 54 lambs front 489
Boom, stlephetd to Mr. John Bar-
ber,' of Damon, had 621 lambs from 490 ewes.—
Boom has More than 25 lambs to a score ewes,,
and Matthews not 24 lambs to a score; Boom is
thetetore.entitled to the premitim of four guineas,
being the fourth tinie he has obtained the Shep-
herd's Prize.

After the presentatioh of tht Preminms, Mr.
Coke proceeded to .offer a , few observai iorA on the
agriculture of the county. He caned on the Ner-
tolkxnen to say, whether, from the adoption of the
drill system,ot husbandry, hom the change. of the
breed of sleep, and from the general attention
cited to the practice of farming, tlkre, was not more
than double the quintity of grain now grown than
there was twenty )ears cigo. iror the proof of this
important' lam, it was only necessary to look at the
exports. When first he knew this, county, it was
quite a lye country, and was accustomed to import
an immetvie quantity of wheat. fur its wodn consuinp-
now, its exports of v‘hel,t are as consider-
able; the little port of Wells alone exporting 10,000
quarters: and he was well persuaded, that if that
degree of emouragement was given by Goyernment
to-the agrieithurists at home, winch it now afforded
by way of premium to the importers of coin from
abroad, the country would in a comparatively short
time .k.reticleted capable' of growing corn sufficient
t,,r its own ennstimption.
Mr. Coke next adverted to the narro,V policy still
pre ;deo!, t f nin granting leases, characterising it as
91 the causes of our pre.ent ntpendence oo
for eig•l supplies;---n long. leaso was the only road to
irni4overnent. • He repeated, but in strryler terms,
the tecominendAtion which he gave la.t year to the
enlttvat;on of the Cockstom, asa
it grass ot RUM CX.
et- lent qualiticsi calculated to carry the greatest
.quantity of sto...k, and one' that he loped wonld, in
tew years, supersede the rve grass in this county,
as hr w tK cons ineed there could. not be a more ex-
hausting white straw crop than the fatter was: Mr.
M. Coke also spoke spoke in recommendation of
the growth of Lueine ; and expatiated largrly on
the lm:.ortant advantages to bederived to the wood•
land parts of the comity from adopting Mr. Gregg's
(ot Het tfordshite) non-fallowing system ; ;PA by
the. intr,ductiou of the best ,bean husbandry', he
howsl to Nerfolk b!come a perfect garden.

Mr. Coke finished hii observations'aitth request...
ing the:company to accept his warmest thanks for
'heir attenuaiiceat a Meeting, which had, for its
object to perfectionate Agriculture-r—the Science
that grtve food to the World : and he earnes;ly ex-
pected of them, that they, one and ail, would
ticker omit bring presenti but invite their neigh.
beurs to cotne also, and, by what they might sec,
as well as by the euggestion4 they niOit offer,
assil in accomplishing this dearest wish of his
heart.

Mr. Coke—and Prosperity to the Holkham
Sheep smearing," was then given- and 41runk ; and
Mr. Coke afterwards made some retnarks, on the
Devonshire cattle, which produced a challenge flom
Mr. Reeve, that lid would shew Suffolk stock against
any Devonshire cattle in the kingdom,
Some songs and conviVal toasts Concluded the
pleasures of the table and the sale of Devonshire
cattle, the' business of the evening.—Thus terminat-
ed the Annual Agricultural Meeting at Holkham,
from which much aditional information was derived
by the praCtical agriculturist, and great rational en-
joyment by the speculative amateur.
The patriotic founder of so laudable an institu-
tion In,' the public good,, cannot but feel a proud
gratification in its InCreaSilig while✓ the
grateful tributes of so many agriculinral *visitors,
from' distant 'cionntics, must hive sensibly enhanc-
ed it.