234 Certificates and other Proofs. 



Certificates ; and other Proofs. 



We have followed the trade of 'Oictuallers, in the Philadel- 

 phia market, 25 years. We have killed very many sheep ; 

 of all breeds commonly sold in that market. The subscriber, 

 William Rusk^ has confined his business, to the killing and 

 vending sheep and calves^ for the most part ; and has killed 

 many hundreds of sheep, in ever}" year. We are well ac- 

 quainted with Judge Peters's Tunis breed of sheep ; origi- 

 nating from his stock, but purchased by us from several 

 farmers. They are the best sheep, compared with the gene- 

 ral run of that animal, in the Philadelphia market. We have 

 killed and sold them, for about seven years. They fat in the 

 flesh, and on the ribs far superior to most others. The rough 

 fat is as great in quantity as any common sheep ; it being 

 most distributed in the flesh. They fat with less food, and 

 are the most healthy, of any sheep we ever knew. The lambs 

 sell the highest of any in the market ; and are the most 

 sought after. We never met zvith an unsound sheep^ in all our 

 knowledge, of this breed. We have not kept an exact ac- 

 count of weights. We killed a ram oi one year old, better 

 than half blood, weighed 23 pounds a quarter, well furnished 

 with rough fat. A ewe three quarters blood — two shears — 

 20 pounds a quarter. A spring lamb bought of Edward 

 George, 14 and a halt pounds a quarter — killed the 10th of 

 June ; 20 pounds of gut fat in the ewe. Major Reybold in 

 Delaware county, bought a three quarter ram of this breed 

 from us. He weighed, alive, 214 pounds. The wool of the 

 full, or high blood, or when crossed with good fleeced sheep, 

 is in great estimation ; and yields more to the fleece, the 

 flock through ; than any other breed we have been acquaint- 

 ed with. Witness our hands, 16th May, 1810. Signed, 



George LenTiZ. 

 William Rusk. 

 Test, John Thomas, 



