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Uninfluenced and unbiaffed, I waited with anx:. 
éty the refult of an experiment, which I confidered 
as fraught with confequences of the firft import- 
ance to the breeding counties of this kingdom. 
And if it has not been fo conclufive as might have 
been wifhed, no blame, I truft, is imputable to me. 
I cannot agree in opinion with the gentlemen 
unto whom the examination of my fheep experi- 
ment was committed. If I recollect right, they 
gave the preference to the South-Down, and after 
them to the others in the following order, viz. 
Glocefter, Leicefter, Mendip, Wilts, and Dorfet. 
Now it appears to me from the nett produce, and 
alfo from the quantity of food confumed, that either 
the South-Down or the Mendip fhould take the 
precedence, and that they fhould rank thus: South~ 
Down or Mendip, Dorfet, Glocefter, Leicefter, 
Wilts. ‘The difference in the value of the fkin and 
fat is not fufficient to alter this conclufion. 
At firft view the Glocefter appear to produce 
moft profit, but when it is confidered that they ate 
nearly one-quarter more food than the Mendip, 
and one-eighth more than the Dorfet, fuch an in- 
ference would be erroneous. 
To the nett profit fhould be added four or five 
fhillings per head for manure, as they were regu- 
larly folded. 
I think the long wool was over-rated in com- 
parifon with the fhort. 
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