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of 1830 to Messrs. Bullock and Davis, at 75 cents per lb., which 

 amounted to 6,400 dollars. I raised that year 900 lambs, and 

 sold 800 sheep for 2,500 dollars. [If Mr. Edington's success has 

 been in proportion to this statement since the period he mentions, 

 is it not highly encouraging to our Southern brethren to under- 

 take his vocation, of growing fine wool ?] 



LETTER PROM SAMUEL GRANT, OF WALPOLE, N. HAMPSHIRE. 



Dear Sir, — Your esteemed favor of the 16th came to hand a 

 few days since. I am gratified to learn that a work of the nature 

 you mention, so much needed by wool-growers, is about to be 

 published. 



My flock at present numbers between 800 and 900, Saxony, 

 Merino, and half-bloods, the Saxons, perhaps, predominating. 

 My Saxons are ^Mr«-blooded, bred from the flocks imported by 

 Searle and Kratzman, in 1829. For the last three or four years, 

 I have crossed part of my flock with Jarvis Merinos. My fleeces 

 averaged last season 3 lbs. 6 oz. well-washed wool, which, con- 

 sidering the number of Saxony fleedes, is a fair average. My 

 sheep (and this will apply to every lot in town) are closely shel- 

 tered in winter, and all have pure water in abundance at all 

 times. This I consider absolutely necessary. I feed in racks, 

 under the hay-lofts, with corresponding openings above, where hay 

 is carefully shaken down, at least three times a day. Hay is the 

 principal article of food. I have sometimes fed straw alone, with 

 a bushel of potatoes, (cut by machine) to 100 ewes, with good 

 , success. The smallest, poorest lam'bs are selected at the begin- 

 ning of the winter season, and usually fed with the better kinds 

 of hay, rowen, &c., together with perhaps half a pint oats each 

 per day. I feed either potatoes or oats liberally to ewes, four to 

 six weeks before they commence having lambs ; litter the folds 

 well with straw, at all times, to make them comfortable, and to 

 increase the quantity of manure. I fatten generally with com 

 — dislike potatoes for this purpose. We are careful to waste no 

 hay, every particle is eaten, when the quality is good ; feeding 

 vidthout racks I consider slovenly and wastefal. We tend our 

 bucks when put to ewes, permitting them to serve 6 or 8 per day, 

 and are carefiil to feed their lordships high ; they seldom exceed 

 100 ewes, going but once to the same ewe. We are partial to, 

 and take good care of our bucks throughout the year, I have 

 used this fall a Merino buck which sheared the past season 13i 

 lbs. washed wool. ^ 



The Saxons are not considered too tender for this region. We 

 , are obliged to treat them carefully, but find no difficully at all in 

 rearing them. Our ewes seldom foal out of doors, except per- 

 haps during the day, at which time they have the limits of th« 



