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'The mixture of cloth, lessens the value considera¬ 
bly. If their pastures are rich, and moist, perhaps 
long wool will be best adapted to it. In this case, 
they should cross their flocks with British, Dutch, 
or Flanders rams, provided their ewes are long 
woolled, as too many of ours now are, by the pre¬ 
dilection which has generally determined our farm¬ 
ers to prefer English sheep ; if they are not, let him 
change them for the longest woolled ewes that he 
can find. If he wishes carding wool, let him find 
ewes with the shortest^ thickest and finest fleeces, 
gnd ci^oss them with ^Spanish rams. 
Im choosing a ram, see that his wool is thick, and 
close on the back, or he will not winter w^ell, and 
that it feels greasy which is a sign of health. Let 
him examine well, both rams and ewes when they 
are shorn. If white hairs are found in the wool of 
any ; fat those sheep off, and do not breed from 
them—r-So if they are coarse woolled on the thighs. 
By this time I presume you think I have said 
chough on the subject of sheep. I will therefore 
change it for another, which tho’ not equally 
-portant, may serve tp furnish useful hints. 
It has long been wished that some means might 
,be contrived for driving oxen with lines, as we do 
horses ; but their mouths do not appear fitted for 
the bit, and bridles would certainly be an obstruc- 
jtion to their chewing the cud. A ring fixed in 
.their noses, is apt to be torn out by bushes, 
