80 Pazstorius to Mr. Bartley on the„Breed of Sheep.[Aug

disprove this? Why by Saying that be has known them at- tain a marketable degree of fatness in less than two years. For ihe demand of certain people, I have no doubt but they will be Sufficiently fat at this age. But will they, in three or five years, be covered with as thick a coat of fat as the New Leicesters at two years old?

Famreally Sorfy that Mr. Bartley cannot defend the ugly Frames of his Sheep in a beiter manner than by tbe quotation he has given us from Young's Annals. Who ever contended that lean Sheep are as beautiful as those of the Same breed, in a fat State? The lean Leicesters, like all other breeds, will most undoubtedly be“ ill-Jooking" when compared with 1hose of the 5ame race in great condition. But will they be as“ill-Jooking" as the Anglo-Merinos, and other breeds, when each are equally lean? would not the streight backs, broad Shoulders, deep fore-quarters, barrel-Jlike ribs, and beautiful beads and legs of the Leicesters, form a Striking contrast with the dromedary backs, heron necks, ugly heads, and flat Sides of the Anglo-Merinos?

I have not lent your last number; it is n0w before me, and as I know the zeal of wy opponents, I have ſor Some time past refused to let any of the numbers be taken from my house, lest I might have occasion to refer to them when hey could not be obtained; a Statement of which might, perhaps, Jeads to Supicions that they contained some arguments 1 could pot answer. And I am certain, Mr. Editor, that you will ap- Prove of my conduct; for though I refuse to lend, 1 always recommend your Magazine, which may increase its Sale.

Mr. Bartley States, in your last number, that the fleece of one of his rams weighed upwards of ten pounds. He does not 8ay whether this ram is of the pure Spanish, or of the erossed blood, I cannot therefore State the precise value, per pound ofits wool. And, even, if your readers were fully in- formed upon this point, there would be Some difference of opinion in estimating that of the fleece. For I think Some weiters inform us that the Spanish wool loses one half, and others that it loses almost two-thirds of its weight in Scouring, or in other words, in being brought to that State in which it is purchased by the manutacturers. Spanish wool is now Sold in the English market at from five Shillings and Six pence to

Six Shillivgs and Six pence per pound. This, however, is'

< gorted," and not fleece wool. Mr. Bartley's ram fleece, therefore, cannot, perhaps, be deemed worth more than from fifteen to eighteen Shbillings.* It is, no doubt, the heaviest

+ It is ſold by the fleece, when ſcoured, at three Shillings and nine pence to four Dillings and fix pence per pound,