110 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
menced. They are great favorites with the farmers 
both of Vermont and New York, and are to be found 
in nearly every fine-wool growing county of the latter. 
Mr. P. F. Myrtle and C. N. Ackerson, of Steuben 
county, New York, have a very superior flock, and 
Gen. O. F. Marshall, Julius Stickney, and others, of 
the saine county, fine specimens of them, descended 
from the flocks of Tyler Stickney and Erastus and 
Lucius Robinson, of Vermont.* I have not at hand 
any statement of their average weight of fleeces, but 
they rank high in this particular. Messrs. Myrtle 
and Ackerson cut 13 lbs. of well washed wool from a 
ram lamb, the carcass of which weighed 60 lbs. after 
shearing. Gen. Marshall cut 9 lbs. of well washed 
wool trom a ewe about sixteen months old, which 
weighed 45 lbs It had previously, of necessity, 
received two heavy taggings. These sheep have ob- 
tained several first state premiums. They cross ex- 
cellently with Merino flocks, previously in that county, 
owned by the Messrs. Baker and others; and indeed 
with all other Merino families with which I have 
known them to be intermixed. 
The mixed Leonese (Jarvis) and Paular (Rich) 
* Mr. Stickney and the Messrs. Robinson started with Paular (Rich) 
ewes. In 1844, Hon. M. W. C Wright, of Shoreham, Vt., purchased 
a ram bred and brought to the New York State Fair by Stephen 
Atwood. From this ram and one of his own ewes, Hrastus Robinson 
bred the “ Old Robinson Ram,” whose descendants on Robinson ard 
Stickney ewes constitute the crossed family mentioned in the text. 
Mr. Stickney had taken a previous cross with a very superior Jarvis 
ram Whether his brother-in-law, Robinson, had done so I am nov 
informed. 
| For some valuable and interesting statements in regard to the 
proportion of wool to meat in sheep of different ages, sexes and sizes, 
see Appendix E, 
