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XLT. On impfoved Sheep hy the Spanish Mixture ; their 

 fVool, and its Value in Superjine Cloth, \Erc. Bu C. H. 

 Parry, ivl.£). P.i?. S.* 



H GENTLEMEN, Circus, Dec. 10, 1304. 



AViNG, during the last thirteen years, carefully attended 

 to the cultivation of a breed of sheep, for the wool of which,, 

 in various forms, the society has done me the honour to award 

 me several premiums, I think myself called on to communi- 

 cate to them the general resul of my experience. This I 

 shall do in form of propositions, each of which 1 shall at- 

 tempt to demonstrate by specimens iiow exhibited to the 

 society. 



I must premise that, except a few Morfe ewes, which I 

 employed at the commencement of my experiments, but 

 which I soon thought Itiad good reasons for discarding, my 

 ewes were wholly of the Rveland breed, selected for me in 

 Herefordshire, and altogether uncontaminated by the ad- 

 mixture of any of the larger and more fashionable kinds. 

 The rams which I have employed for the original crosses 

 have been Merinos, from the flocks of the King and lord 

 Somerville. Of these rams I have, at different times, used 

 about ten. 



I. The first proposition which T shall endeavour to esta- 

 blish, is, that the wool of the fourth cross of lhi.s breed is 

 fully equal in fineness to that of the male parent stock in 

 England. 



In order to prove this, I refer to the scoured specimens. 

 Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. 



No. 1 is the entire fleece of a Merino rain, given by the 

 King to the late marquis of Ealh. Tt is divided into R. F. T. 

 and K.f 



No. 2 is a fleece, similarly divided, of a ram of the 

 Merino-Rycland breed, immediately descended from the 

 former. 



No. 3 is the R. wool of a ewe of the same cross. 



• From Lcttf.$ Jn'J Papers of the Bath and West of England Society, vol. X. 

 f Rrfiiia, Una, Teicera, jud Caluda*. 



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