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menced. They are great favorites with the farmers 

 both of Vermont and New York, and are to be found 

 in nearly every fine-wool growing county of the latter. 



Mr. P. F. Myrtle and C. 1ST. Ackerson, of Steuben 

 county, New York, have a very superior flock, and 

 Gen. O. F. Marshall, Julius Stickney, and others, of 

 the same county, fine specimens of them, descended 

 from the flocks of Tyler Stickney and Erastus and 

 Lucius Robinson, of Yermont.* I have not at hand 

 any statement of their average weight of fleeces, but 

 they rank high in this particular. Messrs. Myrtle 

 and Ackerson cut 13 Ibs. of well washed wool from a 

 ram lamb, the carcass of which weighed 60 Ibs. after 

 shearing. Gen. Marshall cut 9 Ibs. of well washed 

 wool from a ewe about sixteen months old, which 

 weighed 45 Ibs.f It had previously, of necessity, 

 received two heavy taggings. These sheep have ob- 

 tained several first state premiums. They cross ex- 

 cellently with Merino flocks, previously in that county, 

 owned by the Messrs. Baker and others ; and indeed 

 with all other Merino families with which I have 

 known them to be intermixed. 



The mixed Leonese (Jar vis) and Paular (Rich) 



* Mr. Stickney and the Messrs. Robinson started with Paular (Rich) 

 ewes. In 1844, Hon. M. W. C. Wright, of Shoreham, Vt., purchased 

 a ram bred and brought to the New York State Fair by Stephen 

 Afrwood. From this ram and one of his own ewes, Erastus Robinson 

 bred the " Old Robinson Ram," whose descendants on Robinson and 

 Stickney ewes constitute the crossed family mentioned in the text. 

 Mr. Stickney had taken a previous cross with a very superior Jarvis 

 ram. Whether his brother-in-law, Robinson, had done so I am not 

 informed. 



f For some valuable and interesting statements in regard to the 

 proportion of wool to meat in sheep of different ages, sexes and sizes, 

 see Appendix E. 



