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great an opinion of their goodness, and of the advantage to 

 graziers to breed from them, that I have taken a number of 

 them to the grazing farm in Delcnvare state ; for the purpose 

 of breeding from them. 



Philip Reybold. 

 Maij 22d, 1810. 



I certify that I have in my flock, a Timis, three quarter 

 blooded ewe, in perfect health, fat ; weighing 175 pounds, her 

 fleece off". She was got by Judge Peters's original, ram Cara- 

 melli^ and is now rising nine years old ; has never been sick 

 or diseased in any way, and in 1808 weighed 192 pounds ; 

 after shearing eight and three quarters pounds of washed 

 wool. None of my sheep of this breed, except oije w^ho was 

 injured by eating Laurel^ were ever in the least subject to 

 any complaint, usual with sheep ; during the nine years that 

 I have raised annually from 20 to 40 lambs of this breed: 

 although in my flock, I have constantly had common sheep 

 affected with the several diseases incident to that animal, 

 I have this day examined the ewe first mentioned. She has 

 not cast a tooth ; and has now eight teeth, as perfectly sound, 

 and as well set in the gum, as a common sheep at lour years 

 old.^ Signed, 



Thomas Bones. 

 Witness^ Charles Ross, 



Samuel Breck. 

 Lansdoxvn F arm ^ Bloc kley toxvnship^ yuly 11th, 1810. 



* It is well known to farmers, and sheep breeders, that, in place of 

 lambs teeth, a sheep in its second year, g-ets two teeth ; in its third it has 

 four ; after three years old it has six ; and in its fifth year, eig'lit teeth ; 

 when its mouth is full. Very soon after all its teeth are perfect, the mouth 

 begins to break. Most sheep begin to fail in the mouth at six years old ,- 



