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effectually prevented any subsequent admixtures oi 

 blood. He bred his descendants of his Spanish 

 importations pure to the period of his recent death.* 

 I have not thought it necessary to collect the 

 statistics of all the different importations which 

 followed those of Mr. Jarvis, and shall allude to but 

 few, the facts concerning which appear to be well 

 authenticated. In a letter to L. D. Gregory, Mr. 

 Jarvis goes into some more particulars in regard to 

 the later importations. He says there were about 

 300 Guadalupes, and 200 or 300 Paulars sent to 

 Boston ; about 2,500 Montarcos to Boston, ISTew 

 York, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and 

 Savannah ; that those shipped for Boston were for 

 the account of Gorham, Parsons, General Sumner, D. 

 Tichenor, and E. H. Derby; that they were all 



constantly give the necessary directions regarding them, which I, 

 personally, see are faithfully executed. Usually in March or April, I 

 myself select from the preceding spring lambs, the buck lambs I intend 

 for stock bucks. The flocks are separately washed and separately 

 sheared; and during the shearing process the lambs are ear-marked 

 and tar-marked; and the old sheep are also tar-marked as fast as 

 sheared. I have been thus minute, to satisfy you of the confidence 

 and safety with which I can speak of the blood of my sheep. 



" My flock consists of about a thousand sheep of all kinds, of which 

 there are one hundred and sixty Merinos, the pure-blooded descend- 

 ants of those I purchased in Spain, in 1809 and '10, and exported 

 from Lisbon ; about one hundred full-blood Saxons ; and the remainder 

 are crossed between Saxony and Merino. The fleeces of the latter 

 from the attention I have paid to the selection of bucks (as before 

 mentioned), are much heavier than in 1832. The average of the three 

 kinds, taken together, is now 3 Ibs. 2 oz. to 3 Ibs. 4 oz. per head." 



* Now that he has passed away, I may be allowed to say of him, 

 that on the score of integrity no American breeder's reputation ever 

 stood higher. He was emphatically a " gentleman of the old school,' 7 

 above trick, dissimulation, or that paltry rcticency which has marked 

 so many celebrated breeders hi all countries of the world. 



