28 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
of the United States Patent Office, attended the great 
meeting of German agriculturists at Breslau, in 1845, 
where particular attention was given to the subject 
of wool; and that gentleman communicated the re- 
sult of his very minute observations in an instruc- 
tive paper prepared at the request of the Commis- 
sioner of Patents.* In this paper, the sheep of the 
manor of Alesuth, in Hungary, are mentioned as a 
flock of high reputation throughout Germany. I do 
not observe that their average weight of carcass is 
given, but Mr. Fleichmann speaks of their “sur- 
prising size” and says, “there are some rams that 
measure five feet from the muzzle to the root of the tail, 
and twenty-nine inches from the bottom to the chine.”+ 
The average weight of their fleeces was as fol- 
lows: rams 8 Ibs., wethers 3 lbs. 8 oz., ewes 2 Ibs. 
8 oz., lambs 14 oz. The wool was extremely well 
washed. The flock numbered ten thousand. A di- 
minution of numbers, a selection of the heaviest 
fleeced, and pampering, would produce the same in- 
crease in the weight of wool that has been assumed 
the like circumstances would produce in the Baron 
Von Sternburg’s flock. 
The Baron sells his wool from 2s. 8d. to 3s. 2d. 
per pound (English currency, I take it). The Alc- 
suth wool was sold in 1838 for 72} cents a pound, in 
* See Patent Office Report, 1847, p. 239, e¢ seq. 
+ This is a considerably longer and taller sheep than the Spanish 
Merino, or than the American Merino of approved size and form. See 
Petri’s table, already given, with subjoined American measurements, 
andremarks. I cannot think that such length and height would find 
any favor in Germany, in animals producing only three pounds of 
wool, 
