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of Leicester blood, with good keeping, to make 

 him dress one hundred pounds of mutton at 

 twenty months old. 



I have lately been informed by a Western New 

 York gentleman, that I am represented among 

 fine wooled sheep men as having changed my 

 views on the question of feeding coarse or fine 

 wooled sheep, and that I am now in favor of fine 

 wools. I think my experiment of last winter on 

 this point, printed in the Country Gentleman of 

 April 30th, 1868, would satisfy any one to the 

 contrary. Nevertheless, having found it impossi- 

 ble to get coarse-wooled' wethers enough for 

 feeding the present winter, I am again fattening 

 a number of fine wools — but not from choice. 

 Among the latter is one with a ring in his horn, 

 which as I was told by the man from whom I got 

 him, was once sold for three hundred dollars. I 

 was glad to get rid of him, although he was fat, 

 for five dollars and fifty cents ; and, as to fine- 

 wools generally, I am fully convinced they will 

 not make me more than half the money for 

 winter feeding that the coarse wools will. 



