G8 Experiments on the Comparative Fattening Qualities 
The carcasses of the IG of each lot killed at Lome were sold at 
Newg-ate Market on April 25th and 27th, and the offal and loose fat 
were sold at home. Tlie 16 of each sold alive were sent to Smith- 
field on April 25th. The 8 of each kept to be fed till Christmas are 
calculated at the prices obtained per head for those sold alive. The 
wool was not sold, but was A alued, according to the prices then 
ruling, at Is. 5c?. per lb. for the cross-breds, and Is. 3rf. per lb. 
for the Leicesters. Both mutton and wool were exceedingly 
dear at the time of these sales, compared with those of the 
Hampshires, Sussex Downs, and Cotswolds ; but the Leicester 
and cross-bred lambs were also purchased at a very high price. 
The prices per stone (of 8 lbs.) of the sheep sold dead ranged, 
for the Leicesters, from 4';. to 4.?. 2d., giving an average of 
As. \^d. The cross-bred wether carcasses all sold at 46'. 2d. per 
stone ; the ewes at from 4s. Irf. to 4s. 4(Z., giving an average of 
about 4s. 2d. The difference of price in favour of the cross- 
bred carcasses is only, therefore, about \d. per stone of 8 lbs., 
which is certainly less than we should have expected. This was 
probal^ly due to the rather under-fattened condition of the ani- 
mals, which would not pei-haps have tlie tendency to depreciate 
the price per stone of the Leicesters so much as that of the cross- 
breds, which latter particularly would certainly have been im- 
proved if they had had a little more time. The wool of the 
Leicester sheep amounted to about 10s. 2d. per head ; that of the 
.cross-ljred wethers to 9s. 4^^. ; and of the cross-bred ewes to 
lO*-. 4icf. These prices will give an average of somewhat less 
than ^d. per head in favour of the Leicesters over the cross-breds 
on the score of wool. In loose fat the Leicesters yielded about 
Zd. per head less than the cross-breds. 
Of the 16 sheep of each lot sold alive, the prices per head of 
the Leicesters ranged from 38s. to 40s., giving an average of 39s. 
per head. The cross-bred wethers sold for 41s., and the cross- 
bred ewes for 38s., giving an average of 39s. Q>d. per head. 
The general result as to price is, that, of the sheep sold dead, 
the Leicesters gave, including wool and offal, an average of 
about 21. lis. ; the cross-bred wethers 21. 9s. Ad., and the cross- 
bred ewes about 21. 8s. 2d. per head. 
Of the sheep sold alive (including wool), the Leicesters 
averaged 21. 8s. hd. ; the cross-bred wethers, 21. 9s. 'dd. ; the 
cross-bred ewes 21. 8s. : or an average per head for the cross- 
breds of about 21. 8s. \Q\d. 
Of the sheep sold dead, therefore, the price per head is about 
2s. in favour of the Leicesters ; and of those sold alive about %d. 
in favour of the cross-breds. The ewe mutton, both alive and 
,dead, fetched rather less than the wether. 
Taking the average of the 40 sold (the 8 not sold being esti- 
