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Atwater, of Connecticut, 20 ewes, which he added to a small number 

 that he had already purchased of German Cutting. In 1841 he pur- 

 chased of Jacob K. Blakeslee 16 ewes, and added them to his flock, 

 with 8 that he had purchased of Chauncey Atwood, and 27 that he had' 

 purchased of Joseph J. Bailey, of Newport, E. I. In 1842 Mr. Bingham 

 purchased 42 ewes and 2 rams of Mr. Bailey, for which he paid $661, 

 and in 1843 he purchased the remainder of Mr. Bailey's flock, 51 sheep. 

 This stock is said to have been imported by Capt. Paul Cuft'e and J. D, 

 Wolf. They were bought by Mr. Bailey's father at the wharf and taken 

 direct to Ms farm, where they were bred pure, always breeding from 

 rams raised in the flock. Mr. Bingham's flock was described in 1845 

 as being very uniform, remarkable for size, low on the leg, heavy boned, 

 wide chested, large and thick necked, considerably ruffled; heavy 

 fleeced and dark colored on the outside; the wool firm, thick, and long 

 in the staple. On May 23, 1866, 45 yearling ewes and 1 two-year- 

 old Atwood ram were sheared and yielded 503 pounds of wool, or an 

 average of 11 pounds 3 ounces to the ewes, while the weight of 

 carcass averaged a fraction less than 56 pounds. The ram's fleece was 

 25 pounds 2 ounces, his weight when shorn 114 pounds 10 ounces. 



Parts of the flocks of Merrill and A. L. Bingham became the property 

 of Eev. L. C. Bingham, Williston, Vt., his flock in 1845 numbering 

 200 full-blooded sheep. They were nearly equally divided between 

 Guadaloupes and Paulars, so called. Thirty-three of them were, with 

 their lambs, purchased of Joseph I. Bailey, and were considered by Mr. 

 Bingham as pure Paulars, if there were any such in the country. The 

 Guadaloupes came from Enfield and Lebanon, N. H. A part of his 

 heaviest wooled sheep came from Merrill Bingham's flock, a part from 

 W. C. Wright's and A. L. Bingham's. 



One hundred and eighty-seven sheep of this flock in 1845 averaged 

 5 pounds 1 ounce of wool each, washed in a swiftly running stream. 



3 ewes sheared each 7 pounds and up wards. 



12 ewes sheared each 6 to 7 pounds. 



46 ewes sheared each 5 to 6 pounds. 



88 ewes sheared each 4 to 5 pounds. 



33 ewes sheared each 3i to 4 pounds. 



His stock rams sheared as follows : 



1 yearling Paular 10 pounds 8 ounces. 



1 yearling Paular 8 pounds 10 ounces. 



1 yearling Guadaloupe 7 pounds 4 ounces. 



1 2-year old Guadaloupe 8 pounds 8 ounces. 



1 2-year old Paular 8 pounds 8 ounces. 



In 1846 Mr. Bingham purchased a number of Jacob N. Blakeslee's 

 flock, and about the same time the Collins flock of Earabouillet sheep 

 and the first ram of the John A. Taintor French importation. 



M. W. C. Wright commenced a flock by the purchase of W. E. San- 

 ford of 10 ewes, warranted by Mr. Sanford to be pure Jarvis, the blooci 



