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for the last twelve months? 2. Was his wobl of the 

 combing or carding sort, and where did Mr Sherif 

 find a market for it at . one ihilling and threepence 

 per pound ? 3. How does Mr Sherif, or any person 

 else, account for his having ten pounds of wool, the 

 growth of five months, and onlj twelve pounds the 

 growth of twelve montl.s ? 



I hope these questions will not be thought impro- 

 per to elucidate the matter, and Ihaii now give my 

 reasons for proposing them. 



To prove the goodnefs of the breed of Iheep, with 

 regard to carcase, I think they oiYht to hf produced 

 without any other feeding than roots, green herbage, 

 and hay ; their being indulged with more expensive 

 food, can only be with an intent to deceive, or other- 

 wise the_^ must tacitly acknowledge them to be of so 

 bad a kind as not to be capable of being made fat 

 without such indulgence ; therefore, when a fheep is 

 killed to prove the goodnefs of the kind, his food for 

 the last twelvemonths ought to be particularly noticed ; 

 or when a person goes to buy or take a tup, the first 

 question he ought to afk is, what has he been fed 

 with for these twelve months past ? And fhould the 

 tup seller or letter, be found out afterwards to have 

 given him a false account, he is certainly not only 

 liable to lose his tup's price, or hire, but is also liable 

 to a prosecution for deceiving the buyer or taker. 

 My intent by the second question, is to have the su- 

 perior quality of the wool better explained. The 

 liighest price for wool, last season, in Northumber- 

 land, being only eightpencc halfpenny /)fr pour.d, for 

 combing, and tenpence for clothing wool. As to the 



