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mncc they were introduced. They have also been 
so well cultivated there, that tho’ the eonsumptlQii 
ef fine wool has encreased in SwedeOj yet the im¬ 
portation of Spanish wool has greatly diminished. 
My own experience has convinced me, as far as 
trials upon a small scale can do so, that the merino 
is at least as hardy as our sheep. In the year 1805, 
I purchased from the national flock, at the vetene- 
rary school, at Chalons, two young rams and two 
ewes. They cost me, delivered at Paris, (five 
miles distant) 1200’’, Charges, in getting them 
to a sea-port, maintenance till the ship was ready, 
and on board, (though the patriotism of the cap¬ 
tain would not permit him to take any freight,) 
brought them to almost double that price by the 
time they arrived at my farm. One of the rams I 
spared to my brother. The other, with two ewes, 
WQYQ treated exactly as my other sheep ; they were 
fed on hay, and had no shelter. They brought me 
two lambs, and sheared eleven pounds of washed 
wool, near Sf each. The next year the lambs 
came in January, were neglected, and died. The 
wool was not weighed. Last year one of the ewes 
was sick, and brought no lamb, the other droped a 
ewe lamb ; the five fleeces (from the 3 old sheep, 
and two sherelings) when washed, weighed 18 lb. 
besides the tags and waste wool.—»The two bred 
here are in every respect as fine sheep as the impor¬ 
ted rams, without the smallest diflerence between 
the wool of Gne^ or the other.. Upwards of 3 ^ Ib^ 
