vi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Establishment, Treatment, and Produce of the Merino Breed in Sweden, Denmark, 

 Saxony, Prussia, Silesia, Hungary, Austria, Anspach, Bcyreulh, fVirtemburg, Aleck- 

 lenbiirgh, Zell, Brunswick, Baden, the Palatinate, Holland, Piedmont, France, 

 Geneva, Russia, Cafe of Good Hope, New Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, 406 



PART II. 



HISTORY OF THE MERINO-RYELAND BREED OF THE 



AUTHOR. 



CHAPTER I. 



First Establishment of the Breed. Number of the Flocl. Reasons for expecting the 

 Possibility of producing Fine IFool in England. This Expectation confirmed by Expe- 

 rience in a great Variety of Latitudes, and under every Kind of Regimen. Effect of 

 crossing fine and coarse-woolled Ewes, in point of Fleece. Fineness of Filament, Inelas. 

 ticity, and Softness greater in the Merino-Ryeland than in the pure Merino. Specimens ' 

 exhibited of Wool, Cloth, and Casimir. Proportions of different Sorts of fVool in the 

 Fleece. Age at which the Wool is finest. Weight of the Fleeces. Proportion of the 

 Yolk and other Impurities. Value of the Wool scoured, and in the Toll. Proves 

 more in the Manufacture than the pure Merino; and why. Price of the I Fool, and of 

 the Cloth made from it. Quality of the Wool of earlier Crosses. Effects of Heat and 

 Food on the Wool. Does not fall off at a particular Season. Colour. Lamb's Wool ; 

 Fineness, Weight, and Value. Cloth exhibited, - _ - page 433 



CHAPTER II. 



Carcase of the Merino Ryeland Sheep. Size- Superior Profit and Convenience of small 

 Breeds of Sheep. Form, and other Circumstances, mtst connected with a Propensity to 

 fatten; constituting what is called Beauty. Resolved into Fitness. New Leicester 

 Sheep, supposed to be Models of Beauty, tried by this Test. Merino Breed singularly 

 defective in that Respect ; and why. Already greatly in^proved in England, and 

 capable of being made stiff ciently perfect. Merino-Ryeland Cross better in Form than 

 the pure Merino. In Crossing, the Posterity folloiu the Sire in Shin and Wool, and 

 the Dam in Carcase. Capacity of fattening. Number of Sheep kept, and Extent of 

 Land. Effect of Breeding in and in. Hardy Sheep. Rams generally horned. Seldom 

 two Lambs at a Birth. Skin like that of the pure Merino, - - 460 



