of F/ne-zL'oolled Spa/iish Sheep. 141 



Mr. Bridge, of W'mford Eagle, communicated this year 

 the result of an experiment he had made on three kinds of 

 sheep ; viz. Dorset, half Spanish and half Dorset, and half 

 Spanish and half Mendip. 



He kept these sheep from the year 1798, when they were 

 lambed, till February 1 800, when they were butchered as 

 fat sheep ; and having valued them in June 1798, he found 

 the carcases of each sort, with two years wool which had 

 been shorn from them, to yield at that time the following 

 increase in value : 



Real Dorset - - - 4), 5s. 6d. 

 Half Spanish half Dorset - 4 3 8 

 Half Spanish half Mendip - 3 19 2 



In these experiments Mr. Bridge's woolstapler values the 

 Dorset wool at Is. 2^d. a pound, and the half Spanish 

 wool at Is. 4^d. only; but as the Spanish cross in both cases 

 increased the quantity of wool, and as half Spanish wool 

 has never, when its value was properly known, been sold 

 for less than Is. 9d. and generally more than 2s. a pound, 

 there can be no doubt that the improvement in value, arising 

 from the cross, is in both cases considerable. 



Mr. J. Kidgeway, of Upperton, in the parish of Yazor, 

 in Herefordshire, communicated an experiment, in w hich 

 two sheep, the one a 4\yeland and the other half Spanish 

 and half Ryeland, of equal weights, were fed by him toge- 

 ther: the half Spanish sheep produced in a year 2 lb. 12oz. 

 more wool and 5 lb. more mutton than the Ryelauder. 

 This gentleman, whom his majesty graciously permitted to 

 have rams from the Spanish flock some years ago, has also 

 shown by his accounts' that the wool of his flock, of about 

 1(1 score sheep, has been so much increased both in quan- 

 tity and in value by the Spanish cross, as to have jiroduced 

 nearly twice as much money for each clip after the Spanish 

 blood was establislicd in it, as it usually did before. 



In June 1801, the Spanish flock consisted of 108 ewe* 

 and wethers. 



Which produced in weol, washed on the sheeps' back, 397 lb. 

 Loss in scouring - - - 112 



Amount of scoured wool - - 285 



Wiiich produced, when sorted, 



Prime 237lb. at 5s. (jd. per lb. ^ 



Choice 31, at 3s. Cd. Will. Is. 9d. 



Pribbs 17, at Is. 9 d. J 



The wool of the rams and fatting wethers, which had 

 4 been 



