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pair of j\Ieriiio sheep that were taken to his farm in Zanesville, 

 0. In 1801 a Merino ram, "Don Pedro," was imported, being- 

 one of four selected, the others having died, at the request of 

 Mr. Dupont de Xemoues by M. Delessert of Paris, wlio was at 

 the head of a commission to select in Sjjain on behalf of the 

 French Government a flock of 4,000 Merino sheep. 



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Champion Merino Gwe, Daisy. Shown at f^exv South ttlaUs, Hustralia, 1898. 



The first importation of value was on the 10th of April, 

 1802. Colonel David Humphreys shipped at Lisbon seventy- 

 five ewes and twenty-five rams — pure Spanish Merinos one and 

 two years old, and after a voyage of fifty days landed seventy 

 ewes and twenty-one rams in the United States, which were taken 

 to his farm at Derby, Conn. The larger portion of the ewes 



