8fflS AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM 



even advanced the money to my overseer tlirec mGiit!i* 

 b<; fore the bhcep were shorn, in order to secure a pr-e- 

 ference. 



It may be useful tomcntlc.n to you one great cause of 

 the arf.xiety to have fine wool, whtch is now diffusing 

 thi t) jjjfhout this state. Our leg slature have, very wise- 

 ly, given a bounty of eight > dollars ior the best speci» 

 mens of woolen cloth, not less than thirty yards narrow 

 cloth, wove in private families, and a higher hou.ity for 

 two hundred yards made by professed mariutaciurera. 

 The candidates in each C'.unty exhibit their cloth i(> th© 

 county court at their autumn sessions. "J'he person to 

 whom the prize is adjudged, has an order upon the 

 county treasurer for the am<;unt. The judges trans- 

 mit a halfot a yaid of the cl)th, with their cei tiiieate 

 of the breadth and le igth of the piece, to ihe Society for 

 ijseful arts, who determine whicii of the specimens sent 

 them are the first, second and third best of the private 

 claimants, and which the first and second best of those 

 exhibited by proi'essed manufacturers: the first in each 

 line receives rom the state treasury apiece of plate of 

 the value of one hundred and sixty dollars, the second 

 of one hundred dollars, and the third of eighty dollars, 

 jn addition to the county bounty. The last year, the 

 first prize for domestic maiuif.ieturcd cl)th was afljudged 

 to that made from my 3-4 bred wool — that of the first 

 quality was manufactured for my own use, and not 

 exhibited for ihe prize, not having the necessai y bi eadth. 

 Tiie first manufacturer's prize uas taken by one to 

 •whom 1 solil my half bred wool, an<i all the slate finzos 

 liave been, I believe, adjudged to eioih made iromhaif 

 bred Merino fieeces. This has opened the eyes of the 

 pui)lic to tiiis object, and excited so great an emuliiti<;n 

 among the farmers, that many are anxious to proeuic 

 the wool, and 1 do not doubt, that at least one hundred 

 pieces of cloth will be otfered for the premiums this y.ar. 



I have had it very much at heart to render th-s hieed 

 ©f sheep cominoU; aud have accordingly published in the 



