AGRICULTURAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NOtee 
EXPERIMENTS IN BREEDING FAT LAMBS. 
In the last number of this Journal an account was given of 
some experiments carricd out by the Agricultural Department 
of the University College, Bangor, at Lledwigan Farm during 
1899-1900 to test the effect of various crosses in breeding fat 
lambs. Those experiments were made with Merionethshire 
ewes crossed with Wiltshire, Shropshire, and Leicester rams. 
A second set of experiments was undertaken with sixty ewes 
of the class known in Carnarvonshire as “Lleyn Sheep.” 
They are big sheep, containing a large admixture 
of Leicester blood. They were divided into four lots, and 
each ewe was numbered. Lot I., consisting of 15 ewes, ran 
with a Shropshire ram ; lot II., consisting of 15 ewes, with an 
Oxford ram ; lot III., consisting of 14 ewes, with a Suffolk 
ram; and lot IV., consisting of 16 ewes, with a Border- 
Leicester ram. The rams wereturned in on September ist, 
and removed at the end of November. All the ewes were 
then placed in the same fields and remained together until 
the lambs were sold. _ 
There were two barren ewes in lot III. and one in each of 
the remaining lots. Yhe lambs dropped numbered 24 in 
lot 1, 25 in lot My er indot Mie ands-osmulor uae 
The difference in the average age of the various lots was 
not more than a week, and there was really no advantage in 
favour of the older lambs, as they suffered severely during a 
somewhat prolonged period of frost and snow, which the 
younger lambs escaped. There were no losses amore the 
Shropshire crosses, all the 24 lambs being sold, but there 
was a large percentage of deaths among the Oxford crosses, 
only 16 being sold. This loss was in great measure due to 
the fact that one cf the ewes dropped 5 lambs, all of which 
