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"Read what he tells us about early maturity. He says: 'A 

 ram (Hampshire) lamb was put in with the flock of 170 ewe 

 lambs on October 5. In March and April they gave birth 

 to 153 lambs, several being twins, one of which was saved 

 for a ram. They were all good, well-made lambs, easily 

 reared by their young mothers, and with very little more 

 attention than it was necessary to bestow on the principal 

 flock.' He then goes on to tell us that, 'A ram lamb was 

 turned into only fifty of the ewe lambs on September 10, 

 the lambs then being only seven months old, and they 

 gave birth in February and March to 55 strong lambs, 

 without the loss of a single lamb. The following 

 year these 50 lambs, being two-tooth sheep, gave birth to 60 

 fine lambs, some of which weighed 15 pounds on the day 

 they were born. They lambed easier than the two-tooths, 

 which had not lambed when they were tegs. There were 

 reared in four consecutive years 506 teg lambs/ 



"The most remarkable proof of the early maturing proper- 

 ties and the fecundity of the Hampshire can be gathered 

 upon again referring to Mr. De Mornay's report: Three 

 ewes, each having two lambs by their side, were bred to one 

 of the rams in the flock which could not have been more 

 than three months old, and the three ewes gave birth to six 

 more lambs in August, one having three lambs.' He also 

 mentions a ewe which gave birth to two lambs in the month 

 of January. She lambed again early in July, when she gave 

 birth to two more lambs, and in the January following she 

 had again two 'lambs, making in all six lambs dropped by this 

 ewe within a year. The produce (one year's) from this indi- 

 vidual ewe realized $125, leaving one yet unsold. 



"Undoubtedly the Hampshire ewe lamb, on account of her 



