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competent than myself, and I leave you to dispose of them as you 

 see fit. Your most obedient servant, 



\ WIGHT CHAPMAN. 

 January, 1845. 



SHEEP. 



Statement of H. S. Randall, relative to the management of his flock 

 of Sheep, which received the premium of the State Agricultural So- 

 ciety. 



In the winter of 1843-4, 1 wintered in a separate flock, fifty-one 

 ewes over one year- old, two ewe lambs, two rams, one of them one 

 and one of them two years old. Of the ewes over one year old, 

 twenty-eight w^ere full blood Merinos ; twenty-three were half blood 

 Merinos and half blood South Downs; the two ewe lambs were three- 

 fourth blood Merino and one-fourth blood South Down ; and the two 

 rams were full blood Merinos. The flock were kept as follows 

 through the winter. They were fed hay morning and night, and 

 were, as a general rule, required to eat it up clean. At noon the 

 flock were daily fed three bundles of oats and barley (which had grown 

 mixed, say three parts oats and one part barley,) until the 25th of 

 December — after which they received four bundles of oats. The 

 grain was light and shrunken. They received no hay at noon during 

 the winter, and usually consumed all the straw of the grain fed them. 

 They had a good shelter and access to pure water at all times. From 

 this flock I raised fifty-three lambs. The full blood Merinos, includ- 

 ing two rams, and the two three-fourth blood lambs, (in all thirty- 

 two) sheared one hundred and eighty-six pounds and four ounces of 

 washed wool, which I sold at forty-eight cents per pound. Four of 

 the full bloods had two years' fleeces on. The half blood Merinos 

 and half blood South Downs (twenty-three) sheared eighty and one- 

 half pounds of washed wool, seventy-one pounds of which I sold at 

 thirty-eight cents per pound. During the summer of 1844 the flock 

 were kept in good ordinary pasture, and salted once a week. 



Expense of keeping 55 sheep one year, $82.50 



Received for wool, estimating that kept at the 



same price with that sold, $119.99 



besides the increase of 53 lambs. 



HENRY S. RANDALL. 



