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| To this concise chart of our mutton and wool, ee may be added the improved Gloucester, and the maha Staffordshire Cannock-heath sheep, both sorts high- ly worthy of recommendation: the first, being a

ah" Cotswold, enlarged by a Warwick, or old Leices- dat, ter cross, making full-sized,-well-flavoured, and Ben.| profitable carcases of mutton; the latter not unlike ai the South Downs, and highly improvable. It were a ss a pity the old rEEs-warer, our largest and most

prolific breed, should be suffered to become ex- EUR: tinct, since, notwithstanding their size, they have ene fine bone, and their flesh is fine grained; they have good backs and loins, and need no other im- provement, but shortening their legs, which may be effected without any cross. The Dishley tups will prove an excellent improvement to all coarse and leggy sorts, which are bad thrivers; whilst, in my opinion, the Dishley-sheep themselves stand in need of a judicious cross. It is somewhat remark- able, that almost all memory of the Tees-water sheep is worn out amongst the London butchers; but nine out of ten of them, I have reason to be- : lieve, prefer, in their own phrase,“a good old Lin- 3 coln.” If it be a national object, to promote a larger growth of our own fine wools,{which seems to be the case, at least during the existence of the wool-monopoly), the end would be attained by in- creasing the breed of the best Hereford, Dorset:, and Downs; all which species, in their present state, give a good carcase of mutton; but should iF we attempt to enlarge that carcase by crossing, the quality of the wool would be infallibly re- 7 duced, as it happened with the Cotswolds. It nd MM would

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