554 Breed of F'me-lVoolled Spanl/l Sheep. 



their private undertakings, and for fagacity in fcizing all 

 opportunities of improving, by public eftablifliments, the 

 refources of their nation. 



FRENCH ADVERTISEMENT. 



On the 24th of May laft, an advertifement appeared In the 

 Moniteur, giving notice of a fale of two hundred and twenty- 

 ewes and rams of the fineft woolled SpaniOi breed, part of 

 the flock kept on the national farm of Rambouillet ; alfo two 

 thoufand pounds of fiiperfine wool, being the prelent year's 

 clip of this national flock ; and one thoufand three hundred 

 pounds of wool, the produce of the mixed breeds of flieep kept 

 at the Menagerie at Verfailles. 



This advertifement, which is official, is accompanied by- 

 a notice from Lucien Bonaparte, Minifter of the Interior, 

 as follows : 



" The Spanifli breed of {heep that produce the finefl wool, 

 introduced into France thirty years ago, has not manifefted 

 the fmallell fymptom of degeneration : famples of the wool 

 of this valuable flock, which was brought from Spain in the 

 year 1786, are flill preferved, and bear tefl:imony that it hae 

 not in the leaft declined from its original excellence, although 

 the diftrift where thefe fheep have been kept is not of the 

 bcfl: quality for flieep-farmlng ; the draughts from this flock^ 

 that have been annually fold by auftion, have always ex- 

 ceeded in value the expeftation of the purchafcrs in every 

 country to which they have been carried, that is not too 

 damp for flieep. 



" The weight of their fleeces is from fix * to twelve pounds 

 each, and thole of the rams are fometimes heavier. 



** Sheep of the ordinary coarfe-woolled breeds, when 

 crofled by a Spanifli ram, produce fleeces double in weight, 

 and far more valuable, than thofe of their dams ; and if this 

 crofs is carefully continued, by fupplying rams of the pure 

 Spanifli blood, the wool of the third or fourth generation is 

 fcarce diftinguifliable from the original Spanifli wool. 



** This mull mean fletces unwalhed, or in the yoke, as it is technically 

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