•9a Pr6je8 for. extending the Breed of Fint'Woeled Spanifli Sheep , 



jng their own perfonal advantage, in all their private undertakings, and for fagacity in 

 feizing all opportunities of improving, by public eftablifliment, the refources of their 

 nation. 



FRENCH ADVERTISEMENT. 



On the 24th of May laft, an advertifetnent appeared in the Mo/titeur, giving notice of 

 a fale of two hundred and twenty ewes and rams of the fined wooled Spanifla breed, 

 part of the flock kept on the national farm of Rarabouillet •, alfo two thoufand pounds of 

 fuperfine wool, being the prefent year's clip of this national flock, and one thoufand 

 three hundred pounds of wool, the produce of the mixed breeds of flieep kept at the 

 Menagerie at Verfailles. 



This advertifemcnt, which is official, is accompanied by a notice from Lucien Buona- 

 parte, Minifter of the Interior, as follows : 



'* The Spanilh breed of (hecp that produce the fineft wool, introduced into France 

 " thirty years ago, has not manifefted the fmalleft fymptom of degeneration : famples of 

 *' the wool of this valuable flock, which was brought from Spain in the year 1786, 

 *' are ftill preferved and bear teftimony, that it has not in the leaft declined from its 

 " original excellence, although the diftrj£l: where thefe fheep have been kept, is not of 

 *' the bed quality for (heep farming; the draughts from this flock, that have been 

 ** annually fold by au£l:ion, have always exceeded in value the expectation of the 

 *' the purchafers, in every country to which they have been carried, that is not too damp 

 " for flieep. 



♦' The weight of their fleeces is from fix * to twelve pounds each, and thofe of the 

 *' rams are fometimes heavier. 



" Sheep of the ordinary coarfe wooled breeds, when crofl"ed by a Spanifti ram, produce 

 *' fleeces double in weight, and far more valuable, than thofe of their dams ; and if this 

 " crofs is carefully continued, by fupplying rams of the pure Spanifh blood, the woo! of 

 " the third or the fourth generation, is fcarce diftinguifliable from the original Spanilh 

 *' wool-. 



" Thefe mixed breeds are more eafily maintained, and can be fattened at as fmall an 

 " expence, as the ordinary breeds of the country. 



" No fpeculation whatever ofiers advantages fo certain, and fo confiderable to thof(i 

 " who embark in it, as that of the improvement of wool, by the introdudlion of rams 

 " and ewes of the true Spanifli race, among the flocks of France, whether the flieep 

 " are purchafed at Rambouillet, or elfewhere; in this bufinefs, however, it is of the 

 *' greateft importance to fecure the Spanifti breed unmixed, and the utmoft precaution 

 •' on that head fliould be ufed, as the avarice of proprietors may tempt them to fub- 

 " ftitute the crofled breeds inftead of the pure one, to the great difappointment of the 

 " purchafer. 



» This mull mean fleeces unwaflied, or in the yoke, as it is technically termed, 



"The 



