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offspring. I find as a general thing that farmers do not shelter 

 their sheep enough through the cold rainy fall and winter, and 

 too often stint their lambs the first winter, and therefore produce 

 nothing but " stunts." The first principal, in order to have 

 good stock of any kind, is good "care and keep." Yours, 



Merrill Bikgham. 

 West Cornvsrall, Vt., Dec. 22, 1854. 



SPANISH MERIXOS AXD THEIR GRADES. 



Best Buck, 2 yrs. old or over, Wm. Mulks, Whitewater, $7 

 2d best do., C. K. Williams, Shoreham, Vermont, . . 5 



Best Buck, 1 yr. old and under 2, S. M. Hause, Fond du Lac, 5 

 2d best, Wm. Mulks, Whitewater, .... 3 



Best pen of 5 Buck Lambs, S. M. Hause, Fond du Lac, . 3 



2d best, Edgerton & McCarter, Waterville, ... 2 



Best pen of 5 Ewes, 2 yrs. old or over, Edgerton & McCarter, 



Waterville, $7 



2d best do., Peter F. Boss, Genessee, .... 5 



Best pen of 5 Ewe Lambs, P. F. Boss, Genesee, . . 3 



2d best do., S. M. Hause, Fond du Lac, ... 2 



' REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINE WOOLED SHEEP. 



The committee appointed to examine and report upon fine 

 wooled sheep, at the Annual Fair of the Agricultural Society 

 of the State of Wisconsin, held at Milwaukee, October, 1854, 

 deeply sensible of the importance of the wool growing interest 

 to the farmers of Wisconsin, entered upon the discharge of the 

 duties assigned them, not without diffidence of their ability to 

 do justice to a subject of so much magnitude and interest, not 

 only to exhibitors but to the State at large, and in performance 

 of this duty many cases were brought to our notice where the 

 character and merit of sheep on exhibition were so nearly equal 

 in point of excellence, that each should receive a more extended 

 notice than will be convenient to give in this report. 



Class A. — No. 67. — French Merino Buck, over two years 

 old. Ir^ point of size, symmetry of shape, length and fineness of 

 staple, your committee pronounce beyond competition ; to this 

 we awarded the first premium. 



