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1839 for 79 cents, and in 1840 and 1841, when prices 
were depressed, for 64 cents. 
At Breslau is the most celebrated wool market of 
Germany, frequented by manufacturers and wool mer- 
chants from England, France, Belgium, Russia, and 
other nations. The following table of what is about 
the average annual prices of the seven qualities into 
which the German fine wools are sorted, will be 
found instructive for the purposes of comparison :* 
Cwt. , Reichthalers. Dolls, 
3,000 areof the finest quality and average about.130 == 98 per cwt. 
7 | 110== 77 do. 
5,000. cee ccc ee ce ce te ene ecco ee ce neas 100== 70 do. 
10,000... cee cece cece ee cece ee ee ce cece 90 == 63 do 
VB.000. ccc eee cc ce cee ee eee een eae 80== 56 do 
15,000... cc cece cece cece cence eee eeeeees "0== 49 do 
S000. cece cece cece cer ences ten eeeseeeees 50a60 ==35a42 do 
Baron Von Sternburg’s sheep farm has some other 
stock. He realizes 54 per cent. from the whole, and 
appears well satisfied with his profits. It is probably 
a high rate of profit for any of the great German 
or Hungarian sheep establishments. 
The Silesian Merine. 
There is not, perhaps, properly speaking, any dis- 
tinct family of Merinos entitled exclusively to this 
appellation. There are in Prussian Silesia numerous 
flocks descended from the Saxon _Merinos, and not a 
few descended from Mérinos brought direct from 
Spain. In the only important importation made 
from Silesia to the United States, of which I have 
information, the sheep belong to the latter class, 
* See Fleichmann’s paper, Patent Office Report, 1847, p. 293. 
