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Ject, which in like manner hath exceeded my most Sanguine hope.

Last Seasgon I lent a ram to a gentleman,| near Wincanton, Somerset, to run with Sixty E/man South-down ewes, on terms Similar to those expressed in a former letter; at the proper time for division 1 waited on him, and for my interest in the produce, 1 received twenty-one chilver or female lambs, and a Single ram lamb, the latter rather tor observation than for the value of a tup of the half blood; however, the gentleman favouring me in this respect with the first choice, 1 Selected one which 1 conceived to have acquired a very large portion of the Sire. On Friday last they were shorn, the clippings made up in fleece, and 1 here beg to Subjoin the weight of each,

MNo015.. 2.163 No0419]"35 Ibs. 0:44 22 Ibs. 13.+„38 DS ZR ZL S: 14 1 20 15: MU 02. 15. 15% OB105% 5 1 QB105! 16. ZAb5E OI 022.108, nr EIR IFE(2129 MN 002N105: WEIT 22.0 1.058 2: 2025: 19. Z 1bs. (205: 90: 25.105. 40...“27 165. DI ET IS M1 1:08 DSE 22. Z34+1bs. the ram

The ram was considerably heavier than either of the chilver, and I was inclined to predict the fleece would be heavier than that of the latter, one of which you observe to have carried four pound and a half, which on the first cross, and by a lamb of a tew months old, the progenitor relatively Small on both Sides. 1 confess it appears to me a little extraordinary, and 1 Shall endeavour to prezerve her as an article of curiosity, till 1 meet Something to exceed.

In reply to the enquiry of A. N. No. 72, p- 18, I beg to observe, that Merino breeders consider the Sheep produced in the tourth generation, between a Ryeland or South-down ewe, with a pure Merino ram, to be equal in every respect to the Sire, hence they are termed to be of the full blood. Per- haps it would require a dip or two more, to get into the full blood by the Leicester ewe, or Such like coarse woolled 5heep, but the offspring in the fourth generation even of these, would Produce wool which[ would not hezitate to compare with im- ported Spanish, in the manufacture of a piece ot cloth.

1 have now two chilver and a ram lamb, half Merino and half Leicester unshorn, the amendment in the wool by thus

1 J. Rogers, Esq. Yarlington Lodge.