SHEEP. 
stall, near Wolverhampton, whose flock has been highly 
improved, and is still improving, by crossing with 
rams from Mr. Honeybourne, Dishley; Farrow Lough¬ 
borough ; Messrs. Stones, Quorndon, and Barrow; 
Green, Normanton, Leicestershire ; and Buckley, Not¬ 
tinghamshire: three ewes, on the average, rear four 
lambs, the lambs are generally shorn the first summer; 
the ewes average 61b. of wool, and the wethers 8lb. 
Shear hogs sold to the butcher, March, 1807, at 8d. per 
lb. and average 21 lb. per quarter, price 56s. each ; two 
shear would average 30lh. the quarter, and the aged 
ewes would feed to 27 lb. the quarter. 
This flock is never folded, otherwise than by hurdles 
on turnips; and these, as well as Swedish, and cab¬ 
bages, are often drawn to them on turf land, in which 
way they go farther ; a little hay is given in severe frost, 
and deep snow, but no corn. In early spring, they 
graze the watered meadows, and in summer are kept 
on grass and clover ; they are, in general, healthy, and 
by good shepherding, kept free from distempers. 
At the Ryd, Mr. Lechmere’s flock are a cross be¬ 
tween Spanish and Southdown ; the sheep are of a 
good size, the ewes appear to me large enough to 
weigh, when fat, from 15 to 18lb. the quarter the 
wool of the last season was sold at 2s. 8d. per lb. Mr. 
Lechmere means to draw bis flock still nearer to the 
Spanish, by farther crossing with a ram of that breed, 
and thus to continue improving the wool. 
Mr. Terrett, at Severn End, has a flock, which he 
assured me are of the true Ryeland, or Ross, breed, un¬ 
mixed; and could furnish any gentleman with a few of 
that sort of the pure blood, but he has of other sorts. 
He sold his wool of 1S07 altogether, at 2s. per lb.; the 
pure 
