ij4 i^pro'oimtntofjheepand.ioool. July i^. 



Committee of experiments. 



From these considerations, I would beg leave to 

 pfopose that a committee of this society fhould be ap- 

 pointed, under the name of the committee of experi- 

 ments, to make a clear and distinct spcdfication of 

 such experiments as they fhould deem necefsary to 

 be made for elucidating the particulars above allu- 

 ded to, and others they fhould deem of equal impor- 

 tance, and to report to the society the result of their 

 deliberations. And let it be an article of instruction 

 to that committee, to be very minute in describing 

 all the particulars necefsary to be attended to in 

 making these experiments, so as to guard against er- 

 ror. Should such a report, corrected by the society, 

 be afterwards publiflied, it may serve as a clue to 

 direct the experiments of such public spirited indi- 

 viduals as were desirous of co-operating with the 

 society in forwarding so useful an undertak-ing. 



The great object to be ever held in view by this so- 

 ciety, in these and every other enterprise, must be 

 the improvement of BritiQi wool ; and in the first 

 place the improvement of our Ihort carding wool. 

 But, in attempting to obtain the object aimed at, 

 care must be taken not to sacrifice any other ad- 

 vantage we already pofsefs that Ihould tend to di- 

 minifh the profit of the farmer. The prudent Iheep 

 rearer will not rafiily depart from what he know3 

 to be profitable, for another practice he does not 

 know with certainty to be better. If to obtain one 

 pound of fine wool he loses two of a coarser sort — if 

 he must adopt a more tender instead of a hardier 

 breed, fine wool would be purchased at a price far 



