240“On Spanish Sheep.[Oct,

considerable advantages, if these sheep really dezerve all the Praise that Some writers have bestowed upon them, for it would tend tothe removal of 5ome bars to the EEE of the breed; and after all I have Said, profit is 80 alträcting in its nature, that, if I could c/early ARGENT It i0 any cons! iderable degree, i in preferring the Svanish breed to anyother, 1 Should be induced to make the change, however I might lament that beauty and aptitude to fatten, were SurpasSed by other proper- ties.

Lord Somerville, Dr. Parry, and Mr. Bartley, were amongst the first WENN NB EIG Spanish Sheep in this Country on a Pretty e 1 they are Sul] the most zealous advo- Catles GE that ES in order to be Successful, however, in intro- ducing any thing new into a country, particularly a breed of Sheep SO inferior to our own, 77 appearanc e, as the Spanisnh; accounts ol their good properties Should be as moderate as posSible, and Such as are not calculated to excite distrust. In my former letter to 7'% 1 adverted to Some enormous StOC king, wüich Mr.B, has past over In 8ilence. 1 am far from Suspecting the veracity of the advocates of the S Spanish blood; when| first read, however, of. i0 to 14 Sheep per acre(mozt|y ewes and lambs) for Six ta eight mouths in ibe year, and 14s. to 165. per eece, I had almost exclaimed-- non crcdimus! Subsequent accounts have rendered me more credulous.

A house," Says the seripture, that. is“ divided against itself cannot stand."--Let us See how two or three of the„0005t noted breeders of Spanish Sheep, in the west of England, agree... From Mr. B- S last communication, and Some other Productions of his peo, It appears to me, wat he considers he Merino Sheep, a Sheep ralsec 1f from that blood and Kyeland or South Down, as the most profitable, on alf lands and in allsiuvations. N have stated,„ve! even the pure South Downs have, after repeated trials, been found too tender for our high-land pastures in Scotland and the north of E ngland,. Tinus, however, Mr. B. does not notice; but he Says,«he Spanis! h Sheep are well prepared for“ a 50 d tempestuous ch- mate," by being defended by their close eeces. So we were told, with reg aud) 107 thE&IOSe fleeces of the South Downs, which, how ever, have proved more tender than the bardy and comparatively open-woovlled Sheep of the Cheviot and forest breeds. The wool of the es 18 fit oyly for“ mops" and ho EINES and gold at 3d- per Ib. These Sheep are not heavier than the South Downs, whose wool is worth is. 10d. per Ib.; yet the black-faced, hairy-woolled, hardy moun= taineers, are found the most VER EITE MBE Lord Somer- ville, in Some parts of Jus work, Scems more moderate; at