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loose in the grain, larger in size, '* manufacturer's mut- 

 ton/' tit for such markets as supj)]y coUicrics and Jship- 

 ping, but by no means, generally speaking, of such rea- 

 dy sale. 



Notwithstanding the great importance of t!ie short- 

 woolled sheep to tiie naLion, the wli )le attention, both of 

 farmers and breeders has, for these thirty yeais past been 

 absorbed in carrying to a degree of perlection hardly cre- 

 dible, the heavy long vvoolied sheep ; such as Lincoln, 

 Cotswculd, Romney Marsh, and new Leicester, but 

 more j)articulai ly the last. 



To such extreme perfection has the frame of this ani- 

 mal been carried, that one is lost in aiimiration at the 

 skill and good fortune of those who worked out such an 

 alteration. It should seem, as d the} had chalked out 

 on a wall, a form perfect in itsi If, and th -n had given it 

 existence. Nay, fresh technical terms have arisen to 

 express points in those shcp, thirty ycais ago un- 

 known; such as the " fore Hank," and the " cushion," 

 terms universally admitted. 



Such is the animal now : almost the reverse of what it 

 was; and from whatever source it originated, whether 

 from the care and nice observation of breeders, or from 

 crosses with Ryeland or Dorset flocks, is immaterial. 

 Wherever land is deep and strong enough to bear long- 

 woolled sheep, there let them be bred; but let them not 

 be foisted by false arguments on land unable to maintain 

 them ; by doing so the public is most essentially injur- 

 ed. Our combing and coarse wool manufactures must be 

 supplied, and therefore our strong land should be allot. 

 ted to carry coarse, heavy sheep ; but if on the same 

 false principle, one is to be pushed every where, to the 

 exclusion of the other, 1, for one, am old fashioned 

 enough to prefer clothes to carpets, a necessary to a 

 luxury. To be continued. 



PItJNTLD FOU A^D PLBMSJIED B\ DAVID WILEY. 



Viicc j> 2.50 lorticcniy f>nr ^umbers, 

 To be paid in advance. 



