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In regard to fine woollcd bucks, the committee find it very 

 difficult to decide satisfactorily, even to their own minds. The 

 recent introduction of the French Merino and the Silesian 

 varieties may prove to be a great acquisition to our sheep 

 husbandry, but we think they have not been sufficiently tested 

 to warrant us in recommending them too strongly to our 

 farmers. 



A Silesian buck, entered by Thomas J. Field, which sheared 

 eighteen and a half pounds of unwashed wool, of two years' 

 growth, had the finest fleece of any on exhibition, the weight of 

 the fleece having been considerably diminished in consequence 

 of his having been imported during that time. A lot of French 



