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Tin Hal! were worlliy of liigli commendation, Inif tho.ie 

 <•{' Mrs. Bailoy a i)c\\' compt'titor, were judged to be 

 still more perfect; and Mrs. Catiby's Bagging which 

 obtained the premium, liad but one fault — it was too 

 wi<le. 



The Sheep whicli x^Tre she\\ n, far exceeded exjecta* 

 tion, both as to number and quality. INlr. Gibson biought 

 a flock of thirty four yearling lambs of the long wo(jI- 

 ed breed fi-om his farm in Talbot eomjty. oti the I'^asterri 

 Shore of Maryland, that were highly esteemed for their 

 size and quantity of wool,- fur one of which he obtained 

 the premium of Sixty Dollars. Mv. Marhury she\^ ed 

 a ewe and her two lambs, one of a year old, and the 

 other of this spiing, that were of very extraordinary 

 size and beauty— Mr William Bowie's tuo toothed 

 Ram of the long vvoolcd breed produced the greatest 

 t]uantity of wool, and bad it heen washed, and of a 

 tiner fibre, it must certainly have taken the first pre- 

 mium, instead of the second for quantity of wool. Mr. 

 X)uck.et also shewetl two very fine sheep. 



Of the fine wooled tups, none could compete 'with 

 General Mason's Potomac Chief, though those of Messrs 

 Brook, Darby, Chichester and Peter, were certainly fine 

 specimens. But the handsomest sheep shewn on the oc- 

 casion was General John Mason's quarter blooded Me- 

 rino ewe. — Mer form, her countenance, the quantity and 

 fineness of her wool, were well calculated to render her 

 an object of universal admiration, and to convince every 

 one who saw her, of the vast advantages to be derived 

 from crossing the common sheep of the country with the 

 Merinos, 



General Mason, Judge Cranch, and T. Peter Esq. 

 shewed imported iMcrino Ilams of a superior quality — 

 In short, of nearly a hundred shewn, there was not one 

 for which the Exhibitor was not entitled to the thanks 

 «)f the Soeietv. 



PRlN'rED FOR AND PUBLISJIUD UY DAVID WILEY. 



Prirc '^ '2..50 for twenty four JSumhcrs, 

 To he jKiid in advance. 



