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families have been crossed successfully. “ Fortnne,” 
one of the best early sire rams ever known in New 
England, was of this cross.* The ewes and ram with 
which I offered to meet Mr. Collins’s imported French 
sheep in a sweepstakes, were the get of Fortune on 
Rich ewes. 
The late John T. Rich, Esq. (son of the first Ver- 
mont proprietor of the Paulars. and father of the 
present proprietors of the old Rich flock), took one 
cross with Mr. Jarvis’s family, through a ram selected 
by a most competent judge,f who informs me that he 
was the only one of Mr. Jarvis’s entire number which 
he considered suitable for that purpose. He was 
thicker-fleeced, darker, and more compact of form 
than the others, evidently breeding back less than the 
others to the Escurial strain of blood, and his get cor- 
responded with himself in this particular; but my 
impression is, that he did not benetit Mr. Rich’s 
family. In a recent examination of that admirable 
flock (now owned by John T. Rich, the younger, and 
Virtulan Rich, who lived on the old homestead in 
Shorehain, Vermont), I found no ditheulty whatever 
in selecting out the nearest descendants of the Jarvis 
ram, and they struck me mucli less favorably than 
those displaying the characteristics of the original 
family. These valuable sheep have kept pace with 
the improvements of later tines without any sacrifice 
of their early valuable qualities. 
Hon. M. W. C. Wright, of Shoreham, Vermont, 
commenced breeding with Paular sheep, and crossed 
* He was got by a Jarvis ram ona Rich ewe, bred or owned by 
Mr. Stickney. 
+ Hon. M. W. ©. Wright. 
