62 SHEEP INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES 



In the shearing of the following year (1808) the result was thus given : 



These were all shearling ewes and each had produced a lamb which 

 she was then suckling. The average shows a pound of wool for every 

 14 pounds 7 ounces gross weight of carcass, while one of the old- 

 fashioned sheep, weighing 158 pounds gross, produced 5J pounds of 

 wool, or one pound of wool for every 30 pounds gross weight of carcass. 



At this shearing Lawrence Lewis, John Tayloe, Hay ward Foote, and William Alex- 

 ander, all gentlemen farmers, showed one-year lambs. 



Lawrence Lewis, of Woodlawn, Va., exhibited Dishley, his sire, of the Arlington 

 long-wooled race, bred by Mr. Custis; weight on the hoof, 140 pounds; weight of 

 fleece, G pounds. 



Hay ward Foote, of Hayfield, Va., lamb Badger, of the Arlington long-wooled 

 race ; weight on the hoof, 105 pounds ; weight of fleece 9f pounds. 



John Tayloe, of Mount Airy, Va., showed a lamb called Superb, his dam a ewe of 

 Col. Dorsey's stock (well known), by a ram of Tayloe's own breed; weight on the 

 hoof, 130 pounds ; weight of fleece, 8 pounds. 



William Alexander, of Preston, Va., showed lamb Preston, of the home breed; 

 weight on the hoof, 149 pounds : weight of fleece, 7f pounds. 



Tayloe's lamb was 2 feet 8f inches high, and 5 feet 10f inches in length. 



Alexander's lamb was 2 feet 5 inches high, and 5 feet lOf inches in length. 



The Dorsey breed here mentioned seems to have been a local variety, 

 confined to the country lying between Washington and Baltimore. It 

 had its origin, apparently, with Col. Dorsey, and, from the meager 

 accounts we have of it, was a superior mutton sheep. A shearing of 7 

 ewes, a cross on this breed and the Oalvert County breed, took place 

 at Eose Mount, Prince George County, Md., on May 25, 1809, with the 

 following result : 



Pounds. 



5 ewes, 1 year old, fleece each 6 



1 ewe, 1 year old, fleece 8 



1 ewe, 3 years old, fleece 7 



The wool was clean and of good quality, and the lambs made prime 

 mutton. They were easy feeders, not remarkable for size, but well 

 formed and particularly noted for their clean wool. 



