Proje&Jor eKi'iding the Breed of Fine-wooled Spanijh Sheep, %gx 



The ram's wool of the two years fortcd, together produced as follows : 



Quantity of wool, waflied on the (heeps' backs - SHl^* 



Lofs in fcowering - - - - 99 



Amount of fcowered wool - - - ' 215 



"Which produced, RafEnos, 1 8 1 lb, at 4/. 6rf. /i^r lb. J> 



Finos, 22, at 3/. 6d. \ 45/. 15/. dd. 



Terceros, 12, at zs. j 



It IS neceflary to account for thefe extraordinary prices by ftating, that in the year 1799, 

 when both fales were effefted, Spanifli wool was dearer than it ever before was known to 

 be ; but It is alfo proper to add, that 5/. dd. was then the price of the beft Spanifli piles, 

 and that none were fold higher, except as is faid, a very fmall quantity for jx. gd. 



The King has been pleafcd to give away to different perfons, who undertook to try 

 experiments, by crofling other breeds of flieep with the Spanifli, more than one hundred 

 rams and fome ewes : in order, however, to make the benefit of this valuable improve- 

 ment, in the ftaple commodity of Great Britain, accefllble to all perfons who may choofe 

 to take the advantage of ir, his Majefty is this year pleafcd to permit fome rams and 

 ewes to 'be fold, and alfo to command that reafonable prices (hall be put upon themj 

 according to the comparative value of each individual ; in obedience to which it has 

 been fuggefted, that five guineas may be confidered as the medium price of a ram, and 

 two guineas that of a ewe ; a fum which it is believed the purchafer will in all cafes be 

 able to receive back with large profit, by the improvement his flock will derive from the 

 valuable addition it will obtain. 



Though the mutton of the Spanifli flieep was always excellent, their carcafes were 

 extremely different in Ihape, from that mould which the fafiiion of the prefent day 

 teaches us to prefer ; great improvement has however been already made in this article, 

 by a careful and attentive feledtion of fuch rams and ewes as appeared mofl: likely to pro- 

 duce a comely progeny: and no doubt can be entertained, that in due. time, with judicious 

 management, carcafes covered with fuperfine Spanifli wool, may be brought into any 

 fliape, whatever it may be, to which the intereft of the butcher, or the caprice of the 

 breeder, may chufe to aSix a particular value. 



Sir Jofeph Banks, who has the honor of being intruftied with the management of 

 this bufinefs, will anfwer all letters on the fubjeft of it, addrefTed to him in Soho- 

 fquare. The rams will be delivered at Windfor, the ewes at Wcybridge in Surre]r> 

 near Oatlands. 



As thofe who have the care of his Majefty's Spanlfh flock, may naturally be fup- 

 pofed partial to the projeft of introducing fuperfine wool into thefe kingdoms, it has 

 been thought proper to annex the following notice, in order to fliew the opinion held of a 

 fimllar undertaking, in a neighbouring country, where individuals, however they have 

 miftaken their political intereft, are rather remarkable for puriuing and thoro»*ghl weigh- 



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