FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. Ill 



families have been crossed successfully. " Fortune," 

 one of the beet early sire rams ever known in New 

 England, was of this cross.* The ewes and ram with 

 which I offered to meet Mr. Collins's imported French 

 sheep in a sweepstakes, were the get of Fortune on 

 Rich ewes. 



The late John T. Rich, Esq. (son of the first Yer- 

 mont proprietor of the Paulars, and father of the 

 present proprietors of the old Rich flock), took one 

 cross with Mr. Jarvis's family, through a ram selected 

 by a most competent judge, f who informs me that he 

 was the only one of Mr. Jarvis's entire number which 

 he considered suitable for that purpose. He was 

 thicker-fleeced, darker, and more compact of form 

 than the others, evidently breeding back less than the 

 others to the Escurial strain of blood, and his get cor- 

 responded with himself in this particular ; but my 

 impression is, that he did not benefit Mr. Rich's 

 family. In a recent examination of that admirable 

 flock (now owned by John T. Rich, the younger, and 

 Yirtulan Rich, who lived on the old homestead in 

 Shoreham, Yermont), I found no difficulty whatever 

 in selecting out the nearest descendants of the Jarvis 

 ram, and they struck me much less favorably than 

 those displaying the characteristics of the original 

 family. These valuable sheep have kept pace with 

 the improvements of later times without any sacrifice 

 of their early valuable qualities. 



Hon. M. W. C. Wright, of Shoreham, Yermont, 

 commenced breeding with Paular sheep, and crossed 



* He was got by a Jarvis rain on a Rich ewe, bred or owned by 

 Mr. Stickney. 



f Hon. M. W. C. Wright 



