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Ewe .occ wen acecccewaces 6 S31 5:2 1)4 24 14/1 1 44 
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ELWE cece ene cceccccvanes %0 9/1 SH21;4 8H 3811/1 06 St 
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ROM 2... cece sceesevauees OTe} 91/1 612 2)4 514 BRA 0 6 
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Ram ..... caaccecesceces 42 4 13)1 918 Th 8 2 10 8 
ELWE Lee cece wane eences 80 Tid Lit 6138 2/210 8 3 
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EEWE Lace cecum cree ccuscces 122 9 10}2 514 0} 4 8 9 8 
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These weights and measures, except those of the 
American sheep,* are Austrian. The Austrian pound 
* The American Merino ewes were taken from one of my flocks, 
composed of sheep of good medium size, and I think they were a 
little heavier than the average of the flock. They were weighed, &c., 
in December, 1861, and had been sheared only five months~—so that 
their weights did not, like the Spanish, include full fleeces. They 
were in good ordinary condition, and no more. The same is true of 
the ram. He is a small, short animal for one of his family, but has 
great substance, and is specially prized for the uniformity of his off- 
spring, for their low, broad, beautiful forms, and for the great length 
and thickness of their wool. His own fleece has reached to about 21 
lbs. In other respects there was nothing unusual in the appearance 
or form of any of the four; and their shape, &«, would about cor- 
respond with that of the flock they were taken from, or that pro- 
bably of any other prime full blood flock in the country. The ram 
was 25 inches high on the shoulder, the ewes about 23 inches each. 
I wish Petri had given the heights of the Spanish sheep. When the 
difference in weight is taken into account, it is remarkable that there 
