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lar we occasionally see them nearly equal to a 
South Down or Leicester. Belov/ we give the 
portrait of a buck of Mr. Collins’ importation. To 
our eye he is strikingly majestic, and as a wool 
sheep , we do not see how he could be altered for 
the better. 
The Rambouillet Merino Buck Grandee.—(Fig. 24.) 
Imported by, and the Property of, D. C. Collins , Esq., Hartford, Connecticut. 
Grandee’s fleece was suffered to grow from 1839 
iO 1841, two years, and weighed on shearing 26 
pounds 3 ounces, clean, unwashed wool. One 
year’s fleece in 1842 weighed 12 3-4 pounds. At 
three years old in France he sheared 14 pounds. 
Standing in his form as sketched in the position 
above, he measures in a direct line along the body, 
from the setting on of the horns to the end of the 
rump, 3 feet 8 1-2 inches; height over the rump 
and shoulders 2 feet 5 inches; his weight in good 
fair condition is about 150 pounds. The ewes are 
proportionably large, are great milkers, and the 
best of nurses. Both sexes are quiet in pasture, 
and of a gentle, docile disposition. 
I f The average of Mr. Collins’ flock of ewes in this 
year’s shearing, we found to be 6 pounds 9 ounces. 
Allow one fourth loss for clean washing, and it 
would leave the average for the ewes at 4 pounds 
15 ounces. The average of the native Merino 
fleeces clean washed is not over 3 1-4 pounds, and 
that of the Saxons does not exceed 2 1-4 pounds. 
WHEAT AND CHESS. 
We see in the Prairie Farmer, that Messrs 
Owen and Vance, members of the Illinois legisla¬ 
ture, assert that they have found on prostrate 
wheat-stalks, partially filled, a spear putting out 
from the first or second point above the root, on the 
top of which was a full-grown cluster of cheat. 
Mr. Mann, also of that state, found several stalks 
of wheat and chess growing from the same root. 
These he washed carefully, so as to avoid the pos¬ 
sibility of mistake. 
Without intending to provoke the wheat and 
chess controversy, we would thank some of the 
advocates of the convertibility of wheat into chess, 
to inform us, whether the converse of the proposi¬ 
tion has been as nearly demonstrated as the first * 
That is, whether in any instance has it been shown, 
that chess or cheat, by one or more years of careful 
cultivation, has been converted into wheat ? If 
wheat is converted into chess under certain circum¬ 
stances, then it follows clearly, that chess ought 
under other favorable circumstances, to be changed 
back again into wheat. We will thank some oi 
our readers for demonstration on this subject; clear 
decided, and incontrovertible, such as will for eve 
settle the matter. 
ANALYSIS OF MAIZE OR INDIAN CORN. 
We see it asserted in the May No. of the Culti¬ 
vator, that no analysis by foreign chemists has yet 
