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that the pastures d,r6 better adapted to sheep than for any other 

 kind of stock. It is well divided for the purpose and it com" 

 mands the easy supervision of the farmer. 

 [' So well satisfied I am of its many advantages for profitable 

 sheep-husbandry, that for the purpose of making a beginning 

 in this direction, if it meet the approval of the Committee, I 

 will give to the farm a flock of forty, 2 and 3 years old ewes 

 (long wooled mutton sheep) now in fine breeding condition, 

 together with the use of a ram of my own selection and at my 

 own cost. The profit or loss of the flock will accrue to the 

 tenant, but the flock is intended to be given and to go with 

 the farm, and to revert to me again, if sheep-husbandry should 

 be abandoned. The reasons for this stipulation are obvious 

 enough, but it is well to have them distinctly stated. My mo- 

 tive in giving the sheep is to secure a systematic course of 

 sheep-husbandry, in which the tenant is to reap every advan- 

 tage, but not to be converted to his own use by a sale of the 

 flock, or the ownership to be aflfected by his death or by a 

 change of tenancy. 



I have likewise another object in view. I wish to have as- 

 certained what the profit and loss of sheep-husbandry is in Es- 

 sex County, under the conditions of soil and climate which the 

 Treadwell Farm presents. This flock will, if accepted, come 

 on to the farm at the right moment to enable the tenant to 

 keep an accurate account in weight of all the food given to 

 them. The sheep can be weighed and the percentage of food 

 to live weight can be ascertained exactly ; the same process of 

 weighing can be gone through with before shearing in the 

 spring, adding the increase by lambs. The fleeces also can be 

 weighed ; in fact nothing in relation to the management, food 

 and product of the flock need be left to conjecture. The time 

 required to do this amounts to nothing, if systematically con- 

 ducted. It is only requiring him to do what every flock mas- 

 ter should do. 



I should consider the increase of the flock above the original- 

 number to belong to the tenant,, as well as all the wool ; and 



