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of tinwashed wool to be manufactured; tbis, wlieii 
scoured and washed, produced 391b. of this 231b.* 
being of the first quality, made cloth of 15/6 ster¬ 
ling value. If you calculate the British and Ame¬ 
rican duties of 12“ per cent, and the package, com¬ 
mission, freight, insurance and mercantile profit, 
you will find that this cloth can not be sold at less 
than AOf. our money, if so cheap. 141b. being the 
2d assortment, made 7 yards of broad cloth worth 
\2f. sterling ; this would sell here for 35/ The 
3d, 2 lb. only, was made into list. It is evident 
then, that the finest cloth worn here may be made 
from half-blooded Spanish sheep. I venture to 
hope therefore, that, after the end of next year, the 
members of our society, the officers at least, will 
appear in homespun. 
You can hardly think what a nuisance dogs are. 
Tw'o of my neighbors have had their sheep killed 
last w^eek by them, and I have had two of mine bit^ 
ten, and only saved by an accident. This, and the 
melancholy deaths that are so frequently occasion¬ 
ed by canine madness, and the absolute inutility of 
dogs in a settled country, should certainly lead the 
legislature to some measures for diminishing their 
numbers. 
Before I dismiss the business of sheep, I would 
submit one reflection to my brother farmers, which 
they will find important. That is, that they either 
breed for long combing wool, ot for carding wool. 
