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2601b. live weight, and yields from 6 to 8lbs. of 
wool; but this wool would be of little value except 
where blankets or camblets are made ; its value m 
England, is about 14 cents the pound. A Spanish 
fleece, taking the hock round, will yield, exclusive 
of tags, about three pounds each, (mine give me 
near four) worth at least 90 cents, that is, for the 
whole heece, 227 cents. The British heece at 71b, 
which, stating it high, for a flock round, at 14 is 9S 
cents, less than one third of the value of the Spanish 
fleece, and yet the sheep weighs only about one 
third of the weight of the British sheep ; and if, as 
I belive can hardly be doubted, animals of the same 
species eat in proportion, to their bulk, the expense 
pf the British sheep must be three fold greater thaii 
that of the Spanish merino ; or in other words we 
may have three Spanish fleeces, worth together six 
dolls, and 81 cents, at the same rate as one long 
w'GO.lled British fleece, worth only 98 cts ; but this is. 
not the only objection to these sheep ; the strongest 
is, that we have few or no pastures adapted to them^ 
they would then of course degenerate. Indeed this, 
breed is by no means the flivorite breed in Eng¬ 
land. Those now generally sought for rich pas¬ 
tures are the Dishly, which weigh alive about 150 
pounds when fat, and the south-down for lighter 
land. The Dishly is of the long woolled kind, and 
may give about 61 b, of wool, worth 16 cents tho 
pound, so that the only advantage it has over the 
fprmer breed lays in the carcass, which is indeed 
the principal object in England, on account of the 
