of Fine-ivooUed Spanish Sheep. 143 



for several days, and of his customers who purchased the 

 joints. Experience has, however, demonstrated ah-eady, 

 both at Windsor and at Weybridgc, that Spanish mutton 

 is of the best quaUty for a gentleman's table. 



The pelt wool of these eleven sheep was taken off, ia 

 order that its value might be ascertained. 



It weighed in the yoke - 36 lb* 



Loss in scouring - - 8 



Amountof scoured wool - 28 



It was sold as skin wool for 4s. 6d. a pound, and of course 

 produced 5l. 19s. or 10s. a sheep, all expenses deducted. 

 The amount of this profit was quite itnexpectedj and holds 

 forth a source of advantage in this breed, that has not pro- 

 bably hitherto been calculated upon* 



Of all who have laboured to render his majesty's patriotic 

 views in importing Spanish sheep permanently useful to his 

 subjects. Dr. Parry, of Bath, deserves the highest com- ' 

 iriendation. Amidst the labours of a profession always 

 toilsome when successful, and particularly so at Bath* 

 where persons, whose diseases carinot be ascertained by 

 the faculty elsewhere, continually resort, the doctor found 

 leisure to employ himself in the improvement of the British 

 fleece> by crossing various breeds with Spanish rams pre- 

 sented by his majesty to the marquis of Bath and to the 

 Bath Agricultural Society. 



The prizes the doctor has continually obtained from the 

 judicious and respectable body from whom he borrowed 

 rams, for cloths made of his own wool, in the midst of a 

 manufacturing country and amongst abundance of able 

 competitors, prove to a demonstration that he has brought 

 the fleeces of the mi:^cd breed very nearly to the value of 

 the original Spanish; nor is this to be wondered at, when 

 we recollect that the effect of a mixture of breeds operate* 

 in the following proportions : 



The first cross of a new l)reed gives to the 



lamb half of the ram's blood, or - 50 per cent* 



The second gives - - - - 75 



The third -. - - - ' 87i 



The fourth 93£ 



At which period it is said, that if the ew-es have been judi- 

 ciously selected, the difference of wool between the original 

 stock and the mixed breed is scarcely to be discerned by the 

 most able practitioners. 



More ;ieod jiot be said of the doctor's merit ; his book, 



which 



