i^S Essay on Sheep. 



the South Downs would be thirteen shillings 

 and six-pence per acre, that of the Merinoes 

 £ S 15s. 6d. sterling. 



The advantages of the introduction of the 

 Merino sheep have even been acknowledged 

 in the southern hemisphere. In New-South- 

 Wales they have been bred to great advantage, 

 and the wool has not degenerated. Captain 

 ^'Arthur states, that in the year 1801 there 

 were 61 '20, 2l few having been originally intro- 

 duced from the Cape of Good-Hope, to which 

 place they had been transported by the Dutch • 

 He exhibited to the Secretary of State the fleece 

 of a coarse ewe, valued at nine-pence per pound, 

 and that of her lamb by a Merino ram, valued 

 at three shillings sterling. 



It is unnecessary to multiply proofs on this 

 head ; enough has been said to convince every 

 unprejudiced man that his profits from sheep 

 may be doubled by changing his stock. If he 

 has the means, let him procure full-bred rams; 

 if he has not, let him take others of inferior 

 grade, of which many may now be procured : 

 he will by this be approximating the great ob- 

 ject he has in view; and let him be assured, 

 that even one-quarter Merino blood will greatly 

 improve his stock the very first year, even to 

 double and treble the amount of his advances : 



