Essay on Sheep. — Appendix. 185 



6ih, 7th, and 8th columns show the number 

 of each grade produced in the opposite noted 

 in the first column, and the last column the 

 number of the flock, after selling those referred 

 to by the letters in the second column. The 

 ram lambs are supposed to be every year sold ; 

 the number given for the flock are therefore of 

 ewes only. After the seventh or eight year the 

 flock of full-blooded sheep may soon be in- 

 creased to any number re4ulied for a farm. 

 The fifteen-sixteenths, and succeeding grades^ 

 are considered of the full-blood. 



Having had occasion frequently to mention 

 the Clermont Merinoes, I thought it might 

 be satisfactory to give an account of the last 

 sheep-shearing, in order to show, that in all I 

 have said of them I have rather under than 

 overrated their produce. The prices set down 

 in the following table are those at which the 

 wool actually sold unwashed. 



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