HIS majesty's fink WOOLED SPANISH SHEEP. 279 



Thefe fa6ts, which prove an amelioration in the King's Confirmation by 

 Merino fheep, are fully confirmed by the improved Oiape and mentThiTMa- 

 weight of his Majefty's flieerling rams of the prefent year,jeil>'s flock. 

 and give a juftifiable hope, that by a due feledion of rams and 

 ewes, and a correct judgment in matching them. Merino tlieep 

 will in lime be produced, with carcafes perfecliy fafhionable, 

 and wool as perfe61Iy fine. 



No purchafer having been laft year found for the lambs wool Lamb's wool. 

 at a price adequate to its value, it was made into light ladies 

 cloth, which proves excellent, and promifes to be a valuable 

 swticle. A fpeculation, however, has offered for manu- 

 fafluring the lambs wool into fuperfine woolen hofe, which 

 feems likely to yield a ftill better price for the raw article than 

 the cloth. 



The demand for his Majefty's Merino fheep increafes at The demand 

 prefent beyond all calculation. The hed informed clothiers in p'refthrtheS 

 Glouceflerfliire, enlightened no doubt by the ufeful labours fads are well 

 of the Bath Society, and the valuable experiment of Dr. Parry, ^^^^''^^^ > 

 aswellas by the Do6tor's, and by Lord Somerville's publications, 

 are among the mofi anxious applicants to purchafe. The Bath 

 Agricullural Society, whofe attention has been raofl particularly 

 dire6led to the improvement of Englifli wool, humbly requefted 

 the King to give them a Spanifli ram, which requefi his Ma- 

 jefly mofl gracioufly complied with lafl Autumn, and they re- 

 turned thanks in the warmefl terms of refpedful gratitude and 

 fatis faction. 



As fpeculation on the value of Spanifli flieep is evidently and render k 

 on the increafe, and a reafonable probability now appears thai ^^ fhoM be 

 his Majefly's patriotic exertions in introducing the breed, will diftributed by 

 atlaft be duly appreciated and properly underftood, it would J^^*=''^'^PJ^j.^5°^ 

 be palpably unjuft fliould the views of thofe who wifli to derive 

 a fair advantage from the fale of the progeny of Spanifli flieep 

 purchafcd by them from the royal t]ock, be in future impeded 

 by a continuation of the fale of the King's flieep at prices below 

 their real value. 



This circumflancehaving been flated to theKing, his Majefty 

 was gracioufly pleafed to permit the rams and ewes that are to 

 be parted with from the royal Merino flock this year, lo be fold 

 by audlion, in the fame manner as is done at Woburn by his 

 grace the Puke of Bedford, and at Holkham by Mr. Coke, 

 on the prefumption of this being the mofl likely manner of 



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