EAST OP THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 403 



Munson, of Seneca County, sheared 53 Merinos, ewes, wethers, and a few 

 rams, and the average was 12 pounds per head of unwashed wool, which 

 sold at 25 cents per pound. The flock of P. & G. P. Martin, of Monroe 

 County, sheared on an average 13 pounds 3 ounces, 57 sheep having 

 yielded 753 pounds. Six ewes over 2 years old, whose average weight 

 of carcass was 78| pounds, gave an average fleece of 15 pounds lOf 

 ounces. A shearing at Skaneateles showed fleeces running from 16 to 

 24 pounds, and 10 ewes averaged 16§ pounds. A ram fleece reached 

 32^ pounds from a carcass weighing 168 pounds. In 1871 the flock 

 of P. & G-. F. Martin (70 ewes and 15 rams) clipped 1,203 pounds of 

 good-conditioned, unwashed wool, which sold for 30 cents. The ewes 

 averaged 13 J and the rams 17 pounds. During the winter the ewes 

 were fed clover hay without grain until lambing time, April 1, when 

 they were fed grain and roots in addition to hay, and this feed was 

 continued until turned to grass. The rams and lambs had oats and 

 wheat bran in moderate quantity, with hay during winter. This 

 flock was started in 1866 by the purchase of 10 ewes from the flock 

 of William Eogers, of Mendon, and increased by additions from Ver- 

 mont flocks, but always in the Atwood blood or line until, in 1872, it 

 numbered 214 head — 130 ewes, 14 rams, and 70 lambs. The average 

 weight of the fleeces for the years 1870, 1871, and 1872 of ewes 2 years 

 old and upward was 13J pounds, of yearling ewes llf pounds. Tor- 

 rent was the stock ram of the flock. He was bred by F. H. Dean, 

 Cornwall, Vt., got by Little Wrinkley, bred by Edwin Hammond. 

 His first fleece was 16 pounds; second, 24^; third, 29f ; fourth, 28J; and 

 fifth, 29 pounds. He is thus described in the ISew York Register : 



Was purchased of his breeder, when 2 years of age, by Peter and George F. Mar- 

 tin, Rush, N. Y., and stood at the head of their respective flocks down to the time of 

 his death, in 1875. He was also quite extensively used by neighboring breeders, 

 and was the sire of quite a number of famous prize-winning rams. He weighed, in 

 full fleece, 180 pounds, was decidedly masculine in general appearance, and a showy, 

 attractive, smoothly-turned ram. He had a very heavy neck, that was well let 

 down, and was enormously folded at tail, across the Lips and thighs, and carried a 

 heavy, deep flank, which reached well forward. His side folds were heavy, hung 

 low on the carcass, extending well under and across the belly, and was proportion- 

 ately folded at point of shoulder. He was in carcass what would be termed a deep 

 sheep, and yet had good breadth of back, loin, hip, and shoulder. His breastbone 

 was broad, strong, and extended well forward. His fleece was dense, medium qual- 

 ity, tolerably well crimped, and heavily charged with a buff oil, which was well dis- 

 tributed through the fleece. He was fairly covered on the head and legs, and, while 

 his fleece was thick and blocky on the belly, he was a little too open at flank and 

 armpit. His blood is an important factor in many of the flocks of western New 

 York and Michigan, and he will always take rank among the best rams of his day. 

 Weight of fleece, 29t pounds ; length of staple, 2 inches ; length of fiber, 3 inches. 



S. B. Lusk, of Batavia, G-enesee County, had a flock founded in 1866 

 from which he sheared in 1871 from 98 sheep (78 ewes and 20 rams), 

 1,280 pounds of merchantable wool, or an average of 13 pounds each on 

 the entire flock. In 1874, at Skaneateles, he sheared from a flock of 26 



