49, FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
effectually prevented any subsequent admixtures of 
blood. He bred his descendants of his Spanish 
importations pure to the period of his recent death.* 
I have not thought it necessary to collect the 
statistics of all the different importations which 
followed those of Mr. Jarvis, and shall allude to but 
few, the facts concerning which appear to be well 
authenticated. In a letter to L. D. Gregory, Mr. 
Jarvis goes into some more particulars in regard to 
the later importations. He says there were about 
300 Guadalupes, and 200 or 300 Paulars sent to 
Boston; about 2,500 Montarcos to Boston, New 
York, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and 
Savannah; that those shipped for Boston were for 
the account of Gorham, Parsons, General Sumner, D. 
Tichenor, and E. H. Derby; that they were all 
constantly give the necessary directions regarding them, which I, 
personally. see are faithfully executed. Usually in March or April, I 
myself select from the preceding spring lambs, the buck lambs I intend 
for stock bucks. The flocks are separately washed and separately 
sheared; and during the shearing process the lambs are ear-marked 
and tar-marked; and the old sheep are also tar-marked ag fast as 
sheared. I have been thus minute, to satisfy you of the confidence 
and safety with which I can speak of the blood of my sheep. 
“ My flock consists of about a thousand shecp of all kinds, of which 
there are one hundred and sixty Merinos, the pure-blooded descend. 
ants of those I purchased in Spain, in 1809 and 710, and exported 
from Lisbon; about one hundred full-blood Saxons; and the remainder 
are crossed between Saxony and Merino. The fleeces of the latter 
from the attention I have paid to the selection of bucks (as before 
mentioned), are much heavier than in 1832. The average of tho three 
kinds, taken together, is now 3 lbs. 2 oz. to 8 Ibs. 4 oz. per head.” 
* Now that ho has passed away, I may be allowed to say of him, 
that on the score of integrity no American breeder's reputation ever 
stood higher. He was emphatically a “gentleman of the old school,” 
above trick, dissimulation, or that paltry reticency which has marked 
so many celebrated breeders in all countries of the world. 
