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talnly a question. I had it not it in my power to 
make a trial absolutely complete, but I formed a 
a comparison, the result of which follows : I Ued 
him up in stalls during part of the winter, and the 
rest of it he was in the field ; fed exactly during the 
whole as other rams that were compared with him. 
In stalls he beat the Norfolk breed. 
No. 1. Don, weighed 84 lb. 
No. 2. A ram, half South-down, one-quarter 
Norfolk, one-quarter Bake well, 141 lb. 
No. 3. A South-down, from Mr. -Ellman, 136 lb» 
These were fed ^abroad together till March 20th5 
when they weighed : 
No. 1, . . 100 1b. . . . 36 gain. 
No. 2, . 148 .... 7 
No. 3, . . 144 . . . . 8 
N. E. It appears from subsequent experiments, 
that three merinos eat less than two South-downs. 
The same food then gives 
In Merino fiesh, . . . , . . 481b. 
In South-down, . . . . , .16 
In mixed breed with Bakewell, . . . 14 
This was a superiority, of which I confess I 
did not dream.’’ 
In a subsequent set of experiments on lambs, 
the superiority is still greater in favor of the mix« 
ture of one-quarter Spanish blood, over the South- 
^.lown, Norfolk and one-quarter Bakewell, though 
