FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 29 



1839 for T9 cents, and in 1840 and 1841, when prices 

 were depressed, for 64 cents. 



At Breslau is the most celebrated wool market of 

 Germany, frequented by manufacturers and wool mer- 

 chants from England, France, Belgium, Russia, and 

 other nations. The following table of what is about 

 the average annual prices of the seven qualities into 

 which the German fine wools are sorted, will be 

 found instructive for the purposes of comparison :* 



Cwt. Keichthalers. Dolls. 



3, OOO-are of the finest quality and average about . 1 3 = 98 per cwt. 



4,000 : 110= 77 do. 



5,000 : 100= 70 do. 



10,000 90= 63 do. 



15,000.... 80= 56 do. 



15,000 70= 49 do; 



8,000 50a60 =35a42 do. 



Baron Yon Sternburg's sheep farm has some other 

 stock. He realizes 5 per cent, from the whole, and 

 appears well satisfied with his profits. It is probably 

 a high rate of profit for any of the great German 

 or Hungarian sheep establishments. 



Tlie Silesian Merino. 



There is not, perhaps, properly speaking, any dis- 

 tinct family of Merinos* entitled exclusively to this 

 appellation. There are in Prussian Silesia numerous 

 flocks descended from the Saxon Merinos, and not a 

 few descended from Merinos brought direct from 

 Spain. In the only important importation made 

 from Silesia to the United States, of which I have 

 information, the sheep belong to the latter class, 



* See Fleickmann's paper, Patent Office Eeport, 1847, p. 293, 



