00 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



" 5th. I have sold my clip from 30 to 45 cents, ac- 

 cording to the market. 



" 6th. We have measured the wool on quite a num- 

 ber of sheep, and find it from one and a half to two 

 inches long, say eight months' growth ; but I have no 

 means of knowing what it would be at twelve months' 

 growth. 



" 7th. Their external color is dark. The wool has 

 oil, but no gum whatever, they having been bred so 

 as to make them entirely free from gum German, 

 manufacturers always insisting on large deductions in 

 the price of wool where gum is found. 



" 8th. As above stated, the Silesians have oil, but 

 no gum, like what are sold for Spanish and French, 

 and the oil is white and free ; the wool does not stick 

 together. 



" 9th. "We have weighed five ewes. Three dropped 

 their lambs last month ; the other two have not yet 

 come in. Their weights are 115, 140, 130, 115, and 

 127 pounds; three bucks, weighing severally 145, 158, 

 155 pounds ; one yearling buck weighing 130 po t unds; 

 but this would be more than an average weight of my 

 flock when young and very old sheep were brought 

 into the average. My sheep are only in fair condi- 

 tion, as I feed no grain. They have beets, which I 

 consider very good for milk, but not so good for flesh 

 as grain. 



" 10th and llth. For the first time my shepherd 

 has measured some sheep ; ewes from 24 to 28 inches 

 high, fore-leg 11 to 12 inches ; bucks, 27 to 28 inches 

 high, fore-leg 12 to 13 inches. 



" 12th. We find the Silesian hardy, much more so 

 than a small flock of coarse mutton sheep that I keep 

 and treat quite as well as I do the Silesians. 



" 13th. They are first-rate breeders and nurses. 



" Some of these facts I have given on the statement 

 of my shepherd, Carl Hyne, who was one of Mr. Fis- 

 cher's shepherds, and came home with the sheep I 



