234 Certificates and other Proofs. 
Certificates ; and other Proofs. 
We have followed the trade of victuallers, in the Philadel- 
phia market, 25 years. We have killed very many sheep ; 
of all breeds commonly sold in that market. The subscriber, 
William Rusk, has confined his business, to the killing and 
vending sheep and calves, for the most part; and has killed 
many hundreds of sheep, in every. year. We are well ace 
quainted with Judge Peters’s Tunis breed of sheep; origi- 
nating from his stock, but purchased by us irom several 
farmers. They are the best sheep, compared with the gene- 
ral run of that animal, in the Philadelphia market. We have 
killed and sold them, for about seven years. They fat im the 
flesh, and on the ribs far superior to most others. The rough 
fat is as great in quantity as any common sheep ; it being 
most distributed in the flesh. They fat with less food, and 
are the most healthy, of any sheep we ever knew. ‘The lambs 
sell the highest of any in the market; and are the most 
sought after. We never met with an unsound sheep, mm all our 
knowledge, of this breed. We have not kept an exact ac- 
count of weights. We killed a ram of one year old, better 
than half blood, weighed 23 pounds a quarter, well furnished 
with rough fat. A ewe three quarters blood—two shears— 
20 pounds a quarter. A spring lamb bought of Edward 
George, 14 and a half pounds a quarter—killed the 10th of 
June ; 20 pounds of gut fat m the ewe. Major Reybold in 
Delaware county, bought a three quarter ram of this breed 
from us. He weighed, alive, 214 pounds. The wool of the 
full, or high blood, or when crossed with good fleeced sheep, 
is in great-estimation ; and yields more to the fleece, the 
flock through ; than any other breed we have been acquaint- 
ed with. Witness our hands, 16th May, 1810. Signed, 
ASEORGE LENTZ. 
Wiuiiiram Rusk. 
Test. Joun ‘Psomas. 
