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month, mid the highest price realized was $350 for a ram, tiie purchaser 

 being Mr. Hurd, of Dutchess County, N. Y. The lowest ram sold 

 for $160. The ewes sold generally from $36 to $85. One of the 

 Hurlberts, of Connecticut, who had bought fifteen Saxonies the year 

 before, was present and made some purchases, and affirmed that such 

 was the rage for those sheep in his State that within a few weeks he 

 had sold a pair of twin lambs before they were a fortnight old for $430. 

 These 191 sheep were for the most part well descended and valuable 

 animals. A few of them were grade sheep. In June, 1826, the brig 

 Louisa brought out 173 on German account. Not more than one-third 

 of them had any pretentious to purity of blood. Then followed another 

 shipment on German account of 158 from Bremen into New York. Some 

 of these were diseased before they left Bremen, and 22 died before the 

 arrival of the brig. 



The next cargo coming to New York was selected by Mr. Grove, 165 

 in number, and owned by Mr. Grove and Mr. F. Gebhard, of New York. 

 They cost $65 per head landed at New York, and sold at an average of 

 $50 per head, thus entailing a loss of over $2,400. They were of the 

 best Saxony blood. A cargo of 81 arrived at New York shortly after, 

 soon followed by another of 184 on German account, by the brig Warren. 

 With a few exceptions these were good, pure-blooded sheep. Another 

 vessel from Bremen brought over 200 of the most miserable character, 

 some of them being hardly half-grade sheep. This lot is known as 

 the " stop-sale sheep." The ship Phebe Ann brought 120 sheep. More 

 were landed at New York of which there is no account. At a sale in 

 New York, July 12, 1826, presumably of the cargo of 81 sheep, 38 rams 

 and 40 ewes brought an average of $27 per head each. A cargo of 60 

 arrived at Philadelphia early in 1826, and on May 27 William Patter- 

 son, of Baltimore, received direct from Bremen 12 of the very finest 

 Saxons. 



Messrs. Searle & Co. imported three- cargoes into Boston in 1826, 

 numbering in the aggregate 513 sheep. They were about the same in 

 character as their former importations in the main good, but mixed 

 with some grade sheep. Of these, 321 rams and ewes and 58 lambs 

 were sold at Brighton, May 14, 1826. The average amount realized 

 was $44 per head. The highest price was $210 and the lowest $15. 

 Among the purchasers at this sale was William Jar vis, who secured 

 about 50 head at from $32.50 to $137.50 each, the latter for a yearling 

 ram. These he crossed with his Spanish Merinos, a step which he soon 

 found cause to regret. Early in July, 1826, a cargo arrived at Boston 

 on German account, Eniil Bach, of Leipsic, supercargo. A few were 

 good sheep and of pure blood, but taken as a whole they were a mis- 

 erable lot. The owners sank about $3,000 in the venture, notwith- 

 standing they were advertised as " selected from the most renowned 

 Electoral flocks in Saxony." The average amount realized per head 

 was $18.64. Next came another cargo on German account, Wasinuss 



