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PAULAR MERINOS.—-NO. III. 
PAULAR MERINOS.—No. HI. 
In my remarks sent you a few days since, I re¬ 
ferred your readers to the sample of the covering 
of the Jewett ram, at your office in New York. 
In so doing, I had in view more particularly that 
portion of the public who might not find it conve¬ 
nient to go to Vermont to examine the said ram 
and the rest of Mr. Jewett’s flock. To all such as 
have it in their power, and feel sufficient interest 
in the subject, to be willing to travel to Vermont 
for that purpose, that course would, I presume, 
be still more satisfactory than an examination of 
the samples, though selected and furnished by Mr. 
Jewett himself. 
In the columns of the Albany Cultivator for 
October, 1842, there appeared, among other com¬ 
munications, a ram advertisement, in the shape 
of a letter to the editors, from the Rev. Royal A. 
Avery, of Galway, New York. 
This Mr. Avery (in speaking of Mr. Jewett’s 
pictured ram) says, among other things, “ This 
buck is one which Mr. Jewett purchased of my 
brother-in-law, Alfred Hull, of Wallingford, Ver¬ 
mont. He also at the same time purchased of 
Mr. Hull one Paular ewe, whose first lamb after 
Mr. Jewett bought her, is, I presume, the buck 
whose likeness you gave us in the March No. of 
the Cultivator.” Mr. Avery also says at the same 
time, that his “ brother-in-law’s flock has probably 
been kept as pure as any flock in Vermont.” 
(This, it strikes me, is not saying very much for 
their purity of blood.) He then goes on to say, 
(I quote his own words, which I suppose are a 
key that unlocks the true object of his letter,) 
“ Mr. Hull keeps pure Paular bucks constantly for 
sale; has sold hundreds within the last twelve 
years, from $8 to $10 per head; which speaks 
volumes in their favor ! They are no humbug.” 
He then says that the figure of Mr. Jewett’s buck, 
which appeared in the Cultivator for August, 1842, 
is almost a perfect likeness of his own stock buck. 
He at last “ winds up” by giving us, (as one might 
say,) “ in a nut-shell,” the true “ nub ” or kernel, 
of the whole matter. “I have sold all the bucks 
I could raise at $10 per head, at one year old, ex¬ 
cept a few yearlings now on hand, which will all 
be taken before December next. Have sold sev¬ 
eral this season already.” 
I give the foregoing quotation from Mr. Avery, 
not only as an example of modern, or Paular ad¬ 
vertising, (in which the Rev. Mr. Avery almost 
equals Mr. Jewett himself,) but more especially 
do I quote it, as being one of the “ cutest” and 
most adroit specimens that I have ever met 
with, of filching, or what is sometimes called 
“ taking the wind out of another man’s sails.” 
Why it absolutely leaves Mr. Jewett nothing at 
all! It takes away from him the old buck and 
young buck, the ewe, lamb, and all, and leaves 
Mr. J. in the predicament of being a mere pre¬ 
tender to the Paular glories; and this, too, after 
all the fuss and flourish he has made with his ram 
pictures, Cultivator letters, and all that sort of 
thing, including the collateral aid of his disinter¬ 
ested co-worker and friend Mr. Henry S. Randall, 
and all the other puffs and paraphernalia of the ram 
trade, which means and appliances have been so 
effective in getting up, and giving value to the 
Paular speculation. And now, after Mr. Jewett 
has borne so large a part of the heat and labor of 
getting up the Paular scheme, and is just ready to 
pocket the fruits* this smooth and shrewd Rev. 
Mr. Avery would fain endeavor to gel its advanta¬ 
ges all away from him. Verily this Yankee di¬ 
vine is “ not slow” in secular affairs. It would 
not be easy to find his match, in smooth and keen 
shrewdness, among the sons of this world, not 
even among those whose vocations are nominally 
less sacred, and savor daily of bargains and traffic. 
But it is really too bad. He does not do unto 
Mr. Jewett “ as he would be done by.” But I 
must leave them to settle that matter between 
themselves, merely remarking that Mr. J., so far 
as I have seen or heard, bears all from Mr. Avery 
(thus far) with a meek and quiet temper, or per¬ 
chance deems it best and wisest to take things 
coolly , under a belief that, as some one says, “ the 
better part of valor is discretion ,” and in this mat¬ 
ter he may perhaps be wise in thus keeping quiet. 
Of course he knows best about that. 
It appears then, that Mr. Jewett did not, him¬ 
self, breed his pictured ram, the reputation and 
glory of which, according to Mr. Avery’s account, 
belongs in the first place, wholly to his “ brother 
Hull,” of Wallingford, Vermont, and then second¬ 
ly, by a kind of reflected light, enures to Mr. Avery 
himself, who not only says his own flock are of 
that very same sort, being derived solely from his 
“ brother Hull’s,” but that his own “ stock-buck ” 
is the very image of the picture of the beasr which 
Mr. Jewett got published in the Cultivator! ! 
Thus it would seem, that in my plain remarks 
on the Jewett ram, I must have “hit (at the very 
least) three birds with one stone.” A great shot! 
was it not ? But there is no knowing how and 
where these long shots will take effect, where 
there are such family combinations and nzm-ifica- 
tions, as in this Paular speculation. 
So it seems that the Jewett mongrel ram, which 
I commented on and exposed through your col¬ 
umns, is not only a specimen of the Jewett Paulars, 
but of Rev. Mr. Avery’s flock! and also of Mr. 
Avery’s brother Hull’s” flock ! the two very same 
flocks which Mr. A. “ cracks up” so plausibly and 
at such a strong rate, in his letter that you have 
just published for him in the Agriculturist, though 
not without some sensible notes and comments of 
your own. Of course Mr. Avery’s sheep, which 
he calls pure Paulars can not be of any purer or 
better blood than his brother Hull’s flock, from 
which he derived them. Though not such a 
“ mixed medley” of different sorts and shades of 
blood as have been picked up and brought togeth¬ 
er by Mr. Jewett, yet I do not believe for a single 
moment, that Mr. Hull’s sheep are Paulars, any 
more than Mr. Jewett’s, nor even that they have 
any just claims to be considered pure. Merino of 
any sort. If they are of pure blood, it is a fact 
susceptible of proof, and of being proved beyond a 
reasonable doubt. In the absence of such proof, 
or of any proof, I have very good reasons, (which, 
should there be occasion, may hereafter appear,! 
