THE SILESIAN MERINO. 21 



The Silesiah Meeino. — Prussian Silesia has numerous 

 flocks of sheep descended from the Electoral and other Saxon 

 flocks. These require no separate mention here. An impor- 

 tation of a different family of Merinos has been made from 

 that country to the United States, and they have acquired, 

 here, the distinctive appellation of SUesian Merinos. These 

 will be described when an account is given of the importations 

 of foreign fine-wooled sheep into the United States. 



