Essay on Sheep. 15^9 



besides this, it will lay the foundatioa of a good 

 stock to breed upon when he is enabled to pro- 

 cure rams of a higher grade. The mutton of 

 the Merino sheep is acknowledged, by a variety 

 of writers whom it would be useless to quote, 

 to be of very superior quality, and easily fatted. 

 Of this fact, so far as it relates to the full-bred, 

 I have no experience; the half-bred wethers 

 which I have fatted for my own table were cer- 

 tainly not inferior to the country breed, eidier 

 in size, fat, or flavour; they weighed sixteen 

 pounds the quarter, and tallowed well. 



I have, upon a former occasion, given an 

 account of the British sheep. As the attention 

 of our farmers has been more fixed on them 

 than on those of any other country, it will not 

 be improper to offer the following short recapi- 

 tulation of them by the celebrated British far- 

 mer Cully, with some additions by Lawrence, 

 taken from the book of the latter. 



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