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business for farmers to pursue, I determined to make an importation for 

 the purpose of breeding from them, and establish myself as a wool- 

 grower. For this purpose, I embarked at New York in the fall of 1826 

 for my native country, and spent the winter following to select my 

 flock. I landed with them in New York in the month of June, 1827. 

 It consisted of sixty yearling ewes, twenty-five rams and twenty lambs, 

 and I drove them into the section of country where I now reside. In 

 1828, I imported an addition of forty yearling ewes, twenty rams, and 

 ten lambs, to my flock, which, added to the importation of 1827, made 

 one hundred ewes, forty-five rams, and thirty lambs. 



With this number I laid the foundation of my Electoral Saxon flock, 

 which I have maintained in all their purity, and visibly improved them. 

 Their descendants not only are as fine as the original stock, but they 

 yield more wool, and are larger and better-shaped sheep. The whole 

 number of Saxony sheep imported amount to about three thousand. 



It has frequently been asked, " Whether as fine wool can be grown 

 in this coimtry as in Saxony ? " Of this 1 do not entertain a doubt. Ten 

 years' experience has fully satisfied me on this point. In some respects 

 this country possesses natural advantages over Germany, and with the 

 same care and management, we can grow as fine wool here as there. 

 There, pasture lands in many sections are superior. Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, &c., 

 afford, by nature, a healthier herbage, though not so much, as the best 

 sheep districts in Germany ; for instance. Saxony. There, in wet sea- 

 sons, many flocks are subject to the rot, a calamity which is almost a 

 stranger to our flocks, and need never occur if proper precaution is 

 taken. This is an important consideration in our sheep husbandry, 

 and after there shall have been generally introduced ihe German mode 

 of sheep husbandry, as far as applicable to the condition and situation 

 of our country, we shall be able fully to compete with them. 



It is an important consideration to keep sheep in a thriving condition 

 the whole year round. First, it improves the quality of the wool ; sec- 

 ondly, it increases the quantity ; thirdly, less sheep are liable to die ; 

 fourthly, the increase of lambs will be greater. Wool from sheep thus 

 kept, possesses more elasticity, strength, and better felting properties, 

 than if kept poor, and consequently makes a stronger and more dura- 

 ble cloth. To keep sheep too fat depreciates the quality though it in- 

 creases the quantity ; but to keep sheep too poor injures the quality 

 and diminishes the quantity ; besides which, it is injurious to the consti- 



