on Merino Sheep and TVool. 



537 



Unwashed wool from my improved breed 



Washed wool of 7 half-Dorsets, 271b. 8oz., 

 which, if of my breed, would have been, 

 unwashed, _ _ _ - 



Washed wool from 20 Leicester South 

 Downs, 771b. which, from my breed un- 

 washed, would have made 



Washed wool from 60 Leicester-Ryelands, 

 200lb. 80Z., which, from my breed un- 

 washed, would have been 



lb. oz. 

 159S Si- 



lb. 



oz. 



90 o 



270 OJ 



391 



Unwashed wool ftom 195 lambs, yielding, if shorn, 

 more than i4lb. each, - . _ _ 



Total 



243 12 



2231 7 



Now if we suppose the consun.plion by the other animals which I have specified, 

 taken in connection with the extraneous food of the sheep, to equal the produce 

 of 15 acres, the sheep land will be reduced to 150, and the return of wool per 

 acre will be 141b. 140Z.J which, at only 3s. per lb. in the yolk throughout tie 

 fleece, will give 2I. 4s, 7-id. per acre, on land certainly not worth, on an average 

 26 shillings. 



I am myself fully persuaded that, in the former part of this Essay, I have 

 greatly under-rated the average weight of the fleeces of my fleck, if ihey had been, 

 as they are now likely to be, for a suflncient number of generations well fed. Tta 

 rams of different ages from 4-teeih upwards, purchased of me bv Mr. Eirkbetk, 

 yielded last year 971b. or nearly g-jlb, each, of wool in the j oik ; and, op 

 these, two gave iilb. 150Z. each, and one, which had the finest fleece, i2lb. 

 This weight, which I believe considerably exceeds that of any pure Merino fleece 

 ever produced in England, and which fully equals in clean wool that of the boasted 

 fleeces of France, was, doubtless, owing to due care and good keep. My '""wn 

 crops last year failed, and the arable land, which I hold, is not, in my estimation, 

 half enough to afl:ord proper winter sustenance for my sheep. This year, however, 

 my flock promises to yield a larger clip of wool than last season. 



The produce of this breed of .iheep on my farm cainot, as I have bere)re 

 observed, be accurately ascertained, cither as to quantity or vaiue, till it is fully 



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