56 STATE OP HIS MAJESTY'S EINE-VVCJOLED SPANISH SHEET. 



Sheep difpofed .Eight rams and nine ewes were this year difpofed of, which 



breed, in 1800. were a ^ tna ^ could be fpared from the flock. Two of the rams 



went into Dorfetfhire, where the breed is much approved by 



fome fkilful judges of Cheep, and feems likely to produce con- 



fiderable advantage by croffing with the common fheep of the 



country. 



Mr. Bridge's Mr. Bridge, of Winford Eagle, communicated this year the 



improved value rem ^ °f an experiment he had made on three kinds of fheep, 



of fheep and their viz. Dorfet, half Spanifh and half Dorfet, and half Spanifh 



He kept thefe fheep from the year 1798, when they were 

 lambed, till February 1 800, when they were butchered as fat 

 fheep; and having valued them in June 1798, he found the 

 carcafes of each fort, with two years wool which had been 

 fhorn from them, to yield at that time the following increafe 

 in value : 



Real Dorfet 4/. 5s. 6d. 



Half Spanifh half Dorfet - - 4 3 8 



Half Spanifh half Mendip - - 3 19 2 

 In thefe experiments Mr. Bridge's woolflapler values the Dor- 

 fet wool at Is. 2\d. a pound, and the half Spanifli wool at 

 Is. 4df . only ; but as the Spanifh crofs in both cafes increafed 

 the quantity of wool, and as half Spanifli wool has nevef, 

 when its value was properly known, been fold for lefs than 

 Is. 9d. and generally more than 2s. a pound, there can be no 

 doubt that the improvement in value, arifing from the crofs, 

 is in both cafes confiderable. 

 Mr. Ridgway's Mr. J. Ridgway, of Upperton, in the parifh of Yazor in 

 ftaternentof Herefordfhire, communicated an experiment, in which two 

 fheep, the one a Ryeland, and the other half Spanifli and half 

 Ryeland, of equal weights, were fed by him together ; the 

 half Spanifli fheep produced in a year 2 lb. 12ozs. more wool 

 and 5 lb. more mutton than the Ryelander. This gentleman, 

 whom his majefly gracioufly permitted to have rams from the 

 Spanifli flock fome years ago, has alfo fhewn by his accounts 

 that the wool of his flock of about 16 fcore fheep, has beenfo 

 much increafed both in quantity and in value by the Spanifli 

 crofs, as to have produced nearly twice as much money for 

 each clip after the Spanifli blood was eftablifhed in it, as it 

 ufually did before. 



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