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SHEEP 



Dickinson and others in Ohio; Consul, bred about 1838 by 

 William Jarvis ; Stickney s Consul, bred by Jarvis in 1835; 

 California, bred in 1858 by Victor Wright ; Comet, bred in 1861 

 by W. R. Sanford of Vermont, and later taken to Ohio ; Eureka 

 by Comet, and Kilpatrick by Comet, both bred by Sanford ; 

 Wooster, bred in 1849 by Edwin Hammond, sired Young Match- 

 less and Old Greasy ; Gold Drop, bred in 1861 by Edwin Ham- 

 mond, who was several times offered $10,000 for him, and who 

 valued him at $25,000 ; Stowell's Sweepstakes, bred in 1860 by 

 Edwin Hammond ; Golden Fleece by Stowell's Sweepstakes, bred 

 in 1862, said to have earned his owner over $20,000; General 

 Fremont, bred in 1865 by Tyler Stickney; Bismarck, owned by 

 H. C. Burwell of Vermont, that was sweepstakes Merino in 1876 

 at the Centennial Exposition ; Banker, bred in 1875 by V. Rich 

 of Vermont ; Rarus, bred in 1 874 by Geo. Hammond, winner 

 in 1880 of first prize as a sire at the International Sheep Show 

 at Philadelphia ; Don Dudley, bred in 1891 by J. P. Ray of New 

 York ; and More Quality, bred in 1 898 by R. D. Williamson of 

 Ohio, was sire of many of the prize winners at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition in 1904. 



High prices for Merinos have been paid. In 1808 James 

 Wadsworth paid Humphreys $1000 for a ram, and in March, 

 1810, Colonel Humphreys sold two rams and two ewes for 

 $6000 to go to Kentucky. This year, 1810, there was a Merino 

 mania on, and many sheep changed hands at phenomenal prices. 

 On September 22, 1810, an auction of 215 Paular Merinos at the 

 country home of F. B. Winthrop, Home's Neck, New York, 

 brought $57,000, averaging $265 each. Many thousand Me- 

 rinos were imported in 1810 and 1811, and were largely sold 

 at auction, bringing abnormally high prices. Then came a 

 collapse, and Merinos were sold for a song. Again in the early 

 sixties high prices prevailed, and many sheep sold at thousands 

 of dollars each. The people of Australia have long paid high 

 prices for Merino rams. The ram President sold for 1600 guineas 

 ($8000) to go to Tasmania, and several of his sons sold for 

 1000 guineas each. The following rams also sold in Australia 

 for the prices affixed : Sir Thomas, 680 guineas ; Sir Thomas 2d, 

 404 guineas; Golden Horn, 560 guineas; Golden Horn 2d, 630 



