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of these three lambs represents the value of the two ewes, 

 and the proportion of the value of the ram ; the ewe 

 lambs represent the interest or profit on the land, plant, 

 &c. after paying all expenses of management, feeding, &c. 

 After weaning, the ram-lamb is chargeable with his own 

 expenses ; and he augments in value according to these 

 expenses, until he is ready for service ; his proportion 

 of galpon, potrero, corn, hay, cut-grass, bedding, care, 

 and labour, risk and interest, all must go to his account, 

 and the breeder must get back these expenses or he 

 loses money. 



ADDENDA III. 



I have before me the ' Journal of the Eoyal Agricul- 

 tural Society of Scotland' of July 1865, and in it I find 

 a direct corroboration of what 1 have written on the sub- 

 ject of the Australian sheep and wools. In a paper from 

 the pen of the renowned ' Old Norfolk Farmer,' there is 

 a brief history of the origin of sheep in Australia, which 

 is as follows : 



In 1788 Captain McArthur introduced into that colony 

 a small number of Bengal coarse-woolled sheep. Nine 

 years later three rams and six ewes of German Merino 

 arrived at the colony unexpectedly they had been des- 

 tined for the Cape of Good Hope, for which they had been 

 shipped by the Dutch Government. Captain McArthur 

 purchased them, and continued systematically to cross and 

 refine his Bengal stock with them. Ten years later he 

 returned to England, and purchased from His Majesty 

 George III. eight English Merino sheep, which he took 

 out with him to Australia to continue the refining of his 

 flock. Subsequently and continuously, as I have said in 

 my paper, the Australians have bred from the best blood 



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