234 On the Breeding of Sheep.[April,

| ciety, but the increase of produce upon which national pros- perity S0 greatly depends, rests upon it; and, as the much wisShed for LEDERER may be considerably profoted by TE ]| quently discussing the Subject 1 in Such pub lications as your's ih I Should be glad to See it often taken up by Several of your readers, more especially by those that are both land-owners | and practical agriculturists, who can unite the extensive je 118) views of the philosopher and legislator, with the minute 11.1008 attention of the husbandman), for the 7nterested motives of 1| the farmer are Sometimes imputed to Such correspondents, as ] SI, Yours; Bes.

AGRICOLA NORTHUMBRIENSIS.

" hi!. 7: 74 i | ON TEE BREE ING OF SHEEP. ' To the Editor of the wgricuitural AA 181 Ei: SIR, March 30, 1805. | LIHOUGH mp statements and arguments in(0 66th 1 number, are not answered, and Still remain in full force; | 1 Shall now make a few observations on the letter of“ your

obedient Servant,"(it is without Signature) at page 102 of your Jast magazine.

In“tbat letter you are informed that“ Pastorius has fallen into a very usual error; he has been writing coptously on a Subject, only one Side of which has come within his own ob- Servation; and to that Side, a common consequence, he ma« nifests a Strong prejudice." Your correspondent, then Says, f! that he has engaged a Spanish ram for next Season, with a

view of trying a cross from him, instead ot the new Leicesters and South-downs; the two breeds he has bitherto kept--from which it appears that bis practice has not yet brought“ within his own observation," the effects of Such crossing.

1 do not, however, mean to assert that he 1s,?herefore, unable to form a pretty correct opinion, äs to the effects of in= troducing a portion of Merino blood into his focx. But 1 Mmust beg your permission, to caution him against too free an exercise of the liberty he Seems disposed to withhold from

|%."obers:

jy I have not, it is true, made experiments with Spanish Sheep; | but 1 have 2 and read 50 much respecting them, that[ am far from considering myself quite unqualined to judge as to their merits. And when 1 add, that my own flocks of long and Short Wooled Sheep,(including South-downs) are pretry Jarge--perhaps, more numerous, than those of Jord Somer- ville, Mr. Bartley, and Dr. Parry, united; and“ that X am neither yaung nor Inattentive,] flatter myself I shalj obtain with your readers, credit for Some knowledge, as to the pros