AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM IS' 



Premium 13— TWENTY DOLLARS, 



For the best piece of twilled bagging, of hp.rap, fiax-, 

 or cotton, at least ten yards. 



Adjudged to Mrs. Sarah M'Carty Mason, of Hollin 

 Hall, as above. 



Premium 14 -TWENTY DOLLARS, 

 For the best piece of bedticking, of hemp, flax, or cot- 

 ton, or in part of all, or either, not less than ten yards. 

 Adjudged to Mrs. Sarah M'Carty Mason, aforesaid. 



Premiutvi 15— fifteen dollars, 



For shearing a Sheep in the neatest, safest, and most 

 expeditious niaiiner. 



Adjudged to Mr. Edward Eno^, of the city of 

 ^Vashi?^gton. 



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 For the Agricultural Museum. 



Five Minutes Reflect/on on Sheep. 



TliS valuable animal has been much neglected, and litllc 

 nnderstood in our part of the country, Virginia and Ma. 

 i-ylaiid, where I have only known it. The introdnction 

 of the Merinos will, it is to be hoped, do good by, at 

 least, awakening the attention of the community to the bet- 

 ter care of one of the best stocks we possess. I do no^ 

 mean here to speak of t'lc relative fineness of wool, but 

 to drop a few hints as to the rearing of that estimable ma- 

 terial. This can only be done by the one cultivation of 

 the soil, on which it is propagated — the back of the 

 sheep. 



I have been myself, for years, in common with iny 

 neighI)ours, guilty of manifold omissions and neglects ott 

 this score. Having now, in some measure, corrected the 

 procedure on my own farm, I owe it to them to give in my 

 expcrience. Li these States, with but few exceptionjj 

 sheep have been considered as a stock able to shift for 

 itself, to do without care, and without food, except what 



