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MERTIfOS — No. or Entries, 141. 



Judges. — Thomas T. Whittlesey, Pheasant Branch ; Reuben M. Norton, 

 Racine ; Talbot C. Dousman, Ottawa. 



Best buck over two years ; Alraon Atwood, Waupun. ^4. 



Best buck two years or under ; Wesley P. Benson, Johnstown. $3. 



Second best buck two years or under ; David Hall, Gaines, N. Y. Youatt 

 on Sheep. 



Best pen, three ewes, over two years ; Almon Atwood, Waupun. $4. 



Second best pen, three ewes, over two years ; Edgerton & McCarter, 

 Summit. Transactions. 



Best pen, three ewes, two years or under ; David Hall, Gaines, N. Y. $3. 



Second best pen, three ewes, two years or under ; H. B. Burritt, Mas- 

 kego Centre. Youatt on Sheep. 



Best pen three buck lambs ; Almon Atwood, Waupun. 83. 



Best pen three ewe lambs ; H. B. Burritt, Muskego Centre. $3. 



Second best pen three ewe lambs ; George C. Pratt, Waukesha. Youatt 

 on Sheep. 



Almon Atwood's Statement. 



"These sheep I have raised from some pure-blooded Merinos, which I 

 bought of Edwin Hammond, Esq., of Middlebury, Vt., in the autumn of 

 1847. Mr. Hammond purchased his flock of Mr. Stephen AtAvood, of 

 Litchfield county, Conn., who has bred pure from the Humphrey import- 

 ation of Spanish Merinos. These sheep are noted for their hardiness of 

 constitution, and for the large amount of fine wool they produce, in pro- 

 portion to the size of carcass. Bucks of this flock generally shear from 

 ten to sixteen pounds of washed wool ; the ewes from four to eight pounds. 

 My flock of ewes, sixteen in number, sheared ninety-four pounds of 

 washed wool the past season, and reared sixteen lambs, with ordinary 

 keeping. The fleeces ranged from four to seven and three-fourth pounds. 



"The bucks, when they have attained their full growth, weigh from 

 one hundred and forty to one hundred and seventy-five pounds ; the ewes, 

 from eighty to one hundred and thirty pounds. The outward appear- 

 ance of this wool, in its natural state, is quite dark ; but when opened, 

 it appears very white and glossy, with a fine, beautiful crimp. Sheep 



