540 



Lot 3. 



Hence it apppears, 



ist, Thai one of my lanrfbs from No. 65, at 6 months old, and under the most 

 unfavourable circumstances of management, was gjib. heavier than his father at 

 18 months. 



2dly, That the average gain of 6 of my breed, in and in, in 2 months, was 

 i6§lb. ; and that of 2, descended from at least equally good ewes by a pure 

 Merino, only lolb. 20Z. 



3dly, That 2 of my lambs, being lot 3, were heavier at 5 months old, than 

 the 2 from the pure Merino, which was a larger ram, at 6 months. 



Tlic superiority of form in the descendants from my cross-bred ram is ex- 

 tremely conspicuous. 



I do not offer an experiment on so small a scale as decisive, but as it was 

 actually made for the purpose of comparison, and, to the best of my power, fairly 

 conducted, I give it as a subject for the reader's own comments. It is for others, 

 who are belter acquainted than myself with the capacities of our native English 

 breeds, to determine what figure they would make in a similar experiment. 



The present season has been extremely destructive to the ewes and lambs of 

 various kinds in the neighbourhood of this city. The following is the state of my 

 Merino-Ryeland flock to this day. May 12. One hundred and ten ewes, from 

 4-tootli to full 9 years old, were put in 3 lots, to 3 different rams, September 6, 

 i8o6. From these ewes came 107 lambs, 3 ev.cs proving barren, and there 

 being no double lambs. Of these lambs one came dead, a were accidentally 

 strangled between some palisades, and 2 died of disease. One ewe only died. 

 Besides these 107 lambs, on the 27th of March there were yeaned 8 lambs from 

 as many of my shearling ewes which had stolen the ram. Total surviving, 1 10 

 lambs out of 115, from 118 ewes of all ages. 



While I was writing a former part of this Essay in the spring of 1806, I nien- 



