[508] The Report of the Committee on Waste Lands, 1795, estimated wastes and commons at 7,800,000 acres, p. 221.
[509] The Merino was largely imported into England by the efforts of George III, and a Merino Society was formed in 1811; but many circumstances made it of such little profit to cultivate it in preference to native breeds, that it was diverted to Australia.—Burnley, History of Wool, p. 17.
[510] The first, the Bath and West of England, was established in 1777.
[511] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1899, p. 7.
[512] Higher prices had been realized for the improved Longhorns; in 1791, at the sale of Mr. Fowler of Little Rollright, Sultan a two-year-old bull fetched 210 guineas, and a cow 260 guineas; and at Mr. Paget's sale in 1793, a bull of the same breed sold for 400 guineas.—Culley on Live Stock, p. 59.
[513] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1899, p. 28.
[514] Culley on Live Stock (1807), pp. 46-7.
[515] Culley on Live Stock, p. vi.
[516] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1892, p. 27.
[517] Morton, Cyclopaedia of Agriculture, ii. 964.