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improved sort, may find abundance to be purchased in that neghhall irhood, at reasonable rates. Annals of Agriculture, No. 199, p. 291.

I refer the reader to the same number of N Young’s Annals, for what is doing by ae in

our own country, in‘this important article of na-

tional economy. The king has been pleased to give away to different persons who undertook to try experiments; by crossing, more than one hun- dred rams and some ewes; and this year, with the view of national improvement in wool, his Majesty is pleased to permi‘t some rams and ewes to be sold, at reasonable prices, namel Y> five guineas,e each the rams, and two guineas the ewe The rams to be delivered at Windsor, the ewes at Weybridge, Sur- rey. Letters on the business to be addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, London.

The mutton of the Spanish sheep was always eX-

‘cellent, but their shape varies from our ideas of

symmetry; they are, however, plainly improvable in that respect. After this, there can be no farther room for argument, let us, in imitation of the exam- ple set us by out‘neighbours, proceed, without tar- ther Joss of time, to practice.

In the rot, Dr. Darwin advises, fora sheep, SIX vy grains of iron filings in a flour- ball, to be given ever

norning fora Ww cele with salt es ee e af the respect due to such an cae Ihave a good opinion of the efficacy of this remedy, for rea- sons which would be out of pli ice here ae is pro- bable, alonger continuance o! f the die ,may, 1 many cases, be requisite, sometimes perhaps with a reduction of quantity in the dose,

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