ggB Supplement to Dr. Parry's Essay 



Alva Spanish piles, and the third of my Merino-Ryeland v;ool. Tl;e report to 

 nie respecting my cloth was, in Mr. Ycats's own wordi, " by ihe account 

 " received from our agent respecting that and its counter-pieces, he thinks your's 

 " to be considerably the finest of the three." As however the premium required 

 only one comparative piece of Spanish wool, that of the Coronet pile was, together 

 with mine, exhibited to the Agiicultural Society, wiiose Committee, ignorant of 

 the distinctive marks of the cloths, decided in favour of mine. A very accurate 

 report of the manufacture was at the same time presented by Messrs. Yeats to the 

 Society, and will probably be published in the next volume of their Communi- 

 cations. I shall, therefore, no farther anticipate the contents of that report, than 

 by making from it the following extract. " Pcihaps we cannot so fully explain to 

 " the Committee which wool manufactured best, as by giving the exact words of 

 " the Foreman, to whose superintendence the making of these two cloths was 

 " entrusted. He says Dr. Parry's wool and cloth in every state work more kindly 

 " than the Coronet." 



At the same meeting of the Society, for a similar premitjm, Mr. Joyce, of 

 Freshford, exhibited a piece of uniform-white Casimir, manufactured from my 

 wool comparatively with the native Spanish pile marked R. X. S. The same Com- 

 mittee, unacquainted in this case, as in the former, with the origin of the respective 

 pieces, unanimously and without hesitation, determined that from my wool to be 

 the finest. 



I have now an opportunity of communicating to the Board the actual wool- 

 produce of my farm, at the shearing at Midsummer, 1806; previously to which I 

 must state, that the whole land in my occupation during the preceding year, was 

 165 acres, of which 20 were under the plough ; and that I bought for my sheep 

 a ton and a half of oil-cake, 12 bushels of linseed, and a few bushels of grains. 

 On the other hand, with the addition of two quarters of oats, and half as many 

 beans, I entirely supported on the same ground three farm-horses for one year, 

 and a fourth for half a year. I also furnished the entire hay for four coach-horses, 

 besides the food of a useful jack-ass, and the summer-keep for two cows. Under 

 these circumstances, the produce of wool was as follows: 



