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useful animal. A great variety of grasses, pure water, 

 high pasture hinds, good sliades, and all the varieties of 

 movement wliich the sheep has to make to procure its food 

 climbing our mountain sides, has helped much the develop- 

 ment oi a most perfect animal ; while our cold climate has 

 given, by the aid of its breeders, a hardiness and constitu- 

 tion l)y far superior to the imported sheep from which our 

 sheep (^f to-day have descended. Of the original Spanish 

 families of sheep imported into this country, are the In- 

 fantadoes, Escurials, IS^egrettes, Monticos, and Paulers. 

 These families include all of the best varieties of sheep 

 wliicli have been imported into this country from Spain, 

 England, and P'rance. Of all these importations, l^ut two 

 have been bred pure to the present day, and those are the 

 Inf antadoes, and Paulers ; and the great reason tliat these 

 two families have thus been preserved is, that they were 

 found to possess more good qualities than tlie others, and 

 nmch credit is due to the sons of Vermont for the applica- 

 tion of their talent to this calling. Mentioning first the 

 late lamented Edwdn Hammond, who was honored by the 

 title of king among sheep breeders, and then Messrs. 

 Deans, Sanford, Cutting, Rich, Stickney, Wright, Roljin- 

 son, Stowell, Binghams, Clark, Burwell, Gushing, Gleason, 

 Bissell, Williamson, Cliehrino, Fuller, Perkins, Benedict, 

 Townsend, and a multitude of others which time and 

 apace will not allow me to mention. 



Improvku Infantadoes. — These sheep have been pre- 

 served pure to the present day. Tiiey are a fourth, if not 

 a tliird lieavier than tiieir Spanish ancestors, and are the 

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