90 FINE WOOL SULZEP HUSBANDRY. 
“Sth. I have sold my clip from 80 to 45 cents, ac- 
cording to the market. 
“6th. We have measured the wool on quite a num- 
ber of sheep, and find it from one and a half to two 
inches long, say eight months’ growth ; but I have no 
means of knowing what it would be at twelve months’ 
growth. 
“7th. Their external color is dark. The wool has 
oil, but no gum whatever, they having been bred so 
as to make them entirely free from gum—German 
manufacturers always insisting on large deductions in 
the price of wool where gum 1s found. 
“Sth. As abuve stated, the Silesians have oil, but 
no gum, like what are sold for Spanish and French, 
aud the oil is white and free; the wool does not stick 
together. 
“9th. We have weighed five ewes. Three dropped 
their lambs last month; the other two have not yet 
come in. Their weights are 115, 140, 130, 115, and 
127 pounds; three bucks, weighing severally 145, 158, 
155 pounds; one yearling buck weighing 130 pounds; 
but this would be more than an average weight of my 
flock when young and very old sheep were brought 
into the average. My sheep are only in fair condi- 
tion, as feed no grain. They have beets, which I 
consider very good for milk, but not so good for flesh 
as grain. 
“10th and 11th. For the first time my shepherd 
has measured some sheep; ewes from 24 to 28 inches 
high, fore-leg 11 to 12 inches; bucks, 27 to 28 inches 
high, fore-leg 12 to 184 inches. 
“12th. We find the Silesian hardy, much more so 
than a small flock of coarse mutton sheep that I keep 
and treat quite as well as I do the Silesians, 
‘‘ 13th. Lhev are first-rate breeders and nurses. 
‘Some of these facts I have given on the statement 
of my shepherd, Carl Hyne, who way one of Mr. T'is- 
cher’s shepherds, and came home with the sheep I 
