A treatise on the diseases and management of sheep; with introductory remarks on their anatomical structure; and an appendix containing documents exhibiting the value of the Merino breed. Of sheep, and their progress in Scotland / by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, bart.

  • Mackenzie, George Steuart, 1780-1848.
Date:
1809
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and management of sheep; with introductory remarks on their anatomical structure; and an appendix containing documents exhibiting the value of the Merino breed. Of sheep, and their progress in Scotland / by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this circumftance docs not appear to have been attended to ariy where but in England; though in fact, each Cavana is a fepa- rate and diftinct breed of fheefJ; not fuffered by the Spaniards to mingle with others. The difference in value of the wool of different Spanifh flocks is very great; at this time when Spanifh wool is unufually dear, the prima piles are worth more than 7s. a pound, and yet the inferior ones fcarce reach 5s.* Even the French, attentive as that nation generally is to all things that concern the intereft of individuals, appear to have overlooked this circumflance, and to have contented themfelves with mak- ing up the numbers of their importations, without paying any regard to it; they have not at leaft ftated in any one of their publications, that attention was paid to the fecuring fheep of a prima pile, and keeping the breed of that pile pure and unmix- cd, after they had obtained it. Our merchants in Spanifh wool range tbe prima piles in the following order of value, as appears by a ftatement in the year 1792. Paular. Negrete. Muro. Patrimonio, and fifteen more not neceffary to be enumerated. Mr. Lafleyrie, the French writer on fheep, ranges them not very differently; he ftates them as follows; but both Englifh and French agree that all the prima piles are nearly equal ia finenefs of fibre, and confequently in value to the manufacturer. Efcurial, called by us Patrimonio. Guadalupe. Paular. Infantado. Montareo. Negrete, &c. The Danes, he tells us, procured their fheep from the beft * Since this was written, Spanifli wools have rifcn to an exorbitant price, Prima Leonefa is this week rated in the Farmer’? Journal at 20s, a pound, and Seville at ISs. 6d.