288 SHEEP INDUSTRY OP THE UNITED STATES 



About 1823 Alfred Hull, of Wallingford, Vt., purchased a smaU flock 

 of William Jarvis, and in 1842 had about 500, which he claimed to be 

 pure Paulars, at least as pure as any in Vermont, and had been selling 

 them for some years at $8 to $10 per head. He bred the ram Don 

 Pedro, which he sold to William Lane, of Cornwall, who in turn sold 

 him to S. W. Jewett, of Weybridge, Vt. This ram was a large, finely 

 formed sheep, would weigh 140 to 150 pounds, and had a vigorous con- 

 stitution. He sheared about 13 pounds (imperfectly) brook- washed wool, 

 as his heaviest fleece. In 1841 and 1842, 90 ewes of this flock averaged 

 5^ pounds of wool ; 1 ram thirteen months old, 9f| pounds ; 1 three-year- 

 old ram, 12i|, and several ewes cut 6J to 6| pounds. In 1849 Mr. HuU 

 bought of Mr. Atwood 1 ram and 13 ewes. 



An earlier Jarvis flock was that founded by WilUam Pomeroy, of 

 Eutland. In 1811 Mr. Pomeroy bought of Mr. Jarvis, from on ship- 

 board in Boston harbor, some Spanish Merino ewes of the Negretti 

 family. In 1814 a Mr. Eastman bought of Mr. Pomeroy his ewe lambs, 

 which he continued to breed in-and-in with a Negretti ram, except the 

 cross of 1 ram, which he hired of Mr. Jarvis, until 1829, when they 

 were given into the hands of his two sons, by whom some Montarcos 

 were purchased of J. Allen, of Massachusetts. From that time the two 

 families, Negrettis and Montarcos, were bred together. A part of this 

 flock was taken to Wisconsin in 1863 or 1864. 



In 1824 N. H. Bottom, of Shaftsbury, purchased 23 full-blooded Me- 

 rino sheep in Connecticut, from whom is not known, and in 1827 Fred- 

 erick Button, of Clarendon, purchased 63 ewes of Erastus Lyman, and 

 72 of David Wadhams, both of Goshen, Conn. They were represented 

 as having descended direct from the flock of Col. Humphreys. At the 

 same time 8 Humphreys rams were purchased of Mr. Wadhams, and 

 shortly after a ram was purchased of William Jarvis warranted full- 

 blooded and descended from the best flocks of Spain. In September, 

 1830, 72 more ewes were purchased of Humphreys blood. Mr. Chap- 

 man says that the purchase made by Mr. Button were Atwood sheep, 

 and at the same time, in 1827, David P. Holden, of Wallingford, also 

 purchased sojne sheep of Mr. Atwood, and that these were the first 

 Atwood sheep taken into Vermont. 



In 1830 John EockweU, of West Cornwall, Vt., began a flock by the 

 purchase of a few ewes of Leonard Beedle that were descendants of 

 the flock established by Andrew Cock on Long Island. These sheep 

 afterwards came into the possession of his son, S. S. Eockwell, who 

 bred the flock until 1873, when H. E. Sauford became part owner. Mr. 

 Eockwell used rams fi-om the flocks of E. P. Hall, Edwin Hammond 

 V. Wright and others, up to 1868, since which time rams bred within 

 the flock have been used. In 1860 15 Atwood ewes, bred from the 

 Atwood and Hammond flocks, were added, and in 1874 5 Atwood ewes 

 and in 1876 4 Atwood and Eobinson ewes were added. It is now the 

 property of H. B. Sanford, West Cornwall, Vt., and consisted in 1887 

 of 86 rams and 98 ewes. 



