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up to 1905 has issued fourteen volumes. The American South- 

 down Breeders' Association, organized in 1882, has published 

 nine flock books and registered some 15,000 sheep. 



Notable prices for Southdown sheep have been paid since the 

 days of Ellman, though the figures are not as large as those 

 derived from Lincoln or Merino sales. In 1787 the first South- 

 down ram to bring ten guineas ($50) was sold by Ellman to Lord 

 Waldergrave. In 1 794 the Earl of Egremont gave Ellman about 

 $10 each for 50 ewes. In 1796 this same breeder sold a ram 

 for 50 guineas, or $250. Later the Emperor of Russia and the 

 Duke of Bedford each took two of Mr. Ellman's rams at 150 



FIG. 174. A group of Southdown ewes in pasture, owned by C. J. Stuckey, 

 Mechanicsburg, Ohio. Photograph by the author 



guineas ($750) per. head. In 1829, when the Ellman flock was 

 dispersed, 36 rams averaged about $125 each. At the dispersal 

 sales of Jonas Webb in 1861 and 1862 there were sold 1404 

 sheep at an average of i i i?s. 3^., almost $58 each, the highest 

 price being for a ram, 260 guineas, or $1300. At the sales of 

 Henry Webb in Cambridgeshire in 1889 and 1900, 745 rams and 

 ewes averaged about $60 each, the top price being 210 guineas. 

 In earlier days higher prices ruled for Southdowns in America 

 than now. In 1856, at the sale of L. J. Morris, at Fordham, 

 New York, the ewes averaged $150, and one imported ram 

 brought $400. The ram Archbishop, bred by Jonas Webb, was 

 imported by G. H. Brown and cost $1250. 



