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The demand for Hampshire rams, “ for crossing for mutton sheep,” is greater 
than I have been able to fill, and have been compelled to rent out my breeding 
rams in order to accommodate farmers that have been depending on me for this 
~ year’s lambs. 
The sale of 170 Hampshire Down ram lambs, which took place at Basingstoke 
market a short time since, throws all sales which have preceded it into the shade. 
The lambs realized over £11 11s. per head all around. 
The Hampshire Chronicle, an agricultural paper published at Winchester, in 
the south of England, states that in 1822 the late Mr. George Budd, father of 
the present owner of the Hatch Warren flock, founded the valuable breed of 
sheep now so celebrated as “Hampshire Down.” 
