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mains to be solved; how and when did those vari¬ 
ous and mongrel sheep, get made up and melted 
down into Paulars, pure Paulars ? How were 
they transformed? By what process, by what 
alchemy or magic, was it accomplished ? Were 
they dyed in the wool ? The question is, how was 
it done ? When were they baptized into the grdat 
Paular family ? I wait for a reply and full expla¬ 
nation in detail from Mr. Jewett himself, as he 
doubtless knows about it as well or better than any 
one else. I can not however but think, that it 
would be a “ curious” and interesting chapter, 
could we get it. It is, I well know, very easy for 
Mr. J. to say (as he does,) that “a part of his sheep 
are a branch from a certain flock of Simon Pures, 
and the rest are from celebrated breeders, who 
represent them as pure descendants of the Paular, 
or old fashioned Merino.” But in truth it will 
hardly do for Mr. Jewett to attempt to get off in 
this easy way. It is all very unsatisfactory. We 
want something more definite and tangible, some¬ 
thing that is more reliable. What if it should 
turn out, that his “celebrated breeders,” from 
whom he purchased his “ pick ups,” themselves 
got theirs in the same way, as doubtless they 
really did, and without knowing much if anything, 
about their blood or breeding; and they in turn of 
others, (as is more than likely,) of the same class 
of “ celebrated breeders,” who were equally care¬ 
less and ignorant of the blood and breeding of their 
sheep, or at least, the best of them, neglectful of 
requiring and preserving good evidence as to purity 
of the blood. How would the matter of Jewett, 
Avery, and Randall’s Vermont Paulars then stand! 
In s^ch a case to talk of purity of blood, or of hav¬ 
ing any particular or distinct breed of sheep, will 
justly seem to your readers, very funny, as it is in 
fact, very ridiculous. 
All this, it is true, might do very well, for a pur¬ 
chaser whose object was simply to stock a farm, 
with good, strong and healthy sheep, at a fair 
moderate price, and who would not be expected to 
pay much for Mood, nor to be over-critical about 
the exact grade or degree of Merino blood, whether 
more or less pure. But when it comes to raising 
rams and selling them at good prices, for the use 
of the public, and talking and vaporing about 
them, as being pure-bred Merinos, “pure Pau¬ 
lars” and all that sort of thing, it becomes indeed 
quite another matter. For in the selection and 
purchase of male animals for the use and improve¬ 
ment of our choice and valuable flocks and herds, 
it becomes a matter of great consequence to get 
none but such as are pure bred , such as are known 
to possess good pedigrees, beyond any reasonable 
doubt. The great importance of this, is every 
day getting to be better understood and appreciated. 
I would ask, who were Mr. Jewett’s “ celebrated 
breeders,” those who laid the foundation of his 
pure Paular flock? We wool-growers, want 
their names and residences. Perhaps some of 
them may be known to us. I do not understand 
that all the sheep which he has picked up, were 
considered or known to be Paulars, nor even called 
such, before he bought them. But we have 
heard that there is much in “the magic of a 
name,” and doubtless Mr. Jewett thinks so. 
I do not complain at all of the means by which 
Mr. Jewett got together his flock of sheep. It 
was not a bad method. Indeed, to buy the best 
he could find around him, and to pick up a few 
occasionally, here and there, was perhaps about 
the best way he could have taken; but his error 
lay in afterwards claiming them to be pure bred 
Merino sheep, and thrusting them, as such, before 
the public, under a popular specific name which 
did not belong to them. It was this, that gave 
such an unpleasant awkwardness to his case, 
and of which, it can hardly by any ingenuity be 
divested. 
Mr. Jewett says, that I “appear to arrive at my 
conclusions, from a description and picture of his 
ram, which appeared in the Albany Cultivator for 
August 1842.” He then goes on to criticise with 
some severity, the portrait of the ram, and denies 
its truth and accuracy in some essential particu¬ 
lars. This is perhaps all very well; but how does 
it tally with what he himself said of the same 
portrait at the time it appeared in the Cultivator ! 
He then said, without any reservation whatever, 
that it was “ a very true picture” ! Besides, you 
know we had in the Albany Cultivator for October 
1842, at page 162, the certificate of the Reverend 
Royal A. Avery setting forth that he was certain 
that the portrait of Jewett’s buck in the August 
number of the Cultivator, was, (to quote his 
words,) “a very perfect likeness”! This, how¬ 
ever, is a small matter. 
But it seems that Mr. Jewett now wishes to 
shift my observation, and that of the public, on to 
another ram, and a very different one from the 
former. In your October number, he says, “I 
would refer Mr. Examiner to the 2d Vol. of the N. 
Y. State Transactions of 1842, for a correct like¬ 
ness of one of my stock bucks.” Therefore as to 
this likeness, I presume there can be no mistake. 
I perceive it has also now just appeared in the 
Albany Cultivator for the present month. It is 
certainly a brave looking picture. The head and 
horns of this one are far better than the other, and 
more indicative of Merino blood, though even this 
ram, as pictured, has not the Merino form of 
carcass and carries but little, if any, resemblance 
to the peculiarities of the genuine Paular family. 
He is however, undoubtedly, a much better buck 
than the other one, of which we have spoken, and 
I should judge must be better bred. Doubtless 
he has better blood, and more of the pure Merino 
(of some sort,) than the other one has. For con¬ 
venience sake, and for the purpose of distinguish¬ 
ing one from the other, let us call the ram which 
Mr. Jewett bought from Mr. Hull of Wallingford, 
No. 1, while the other (the new one,) we will, if 
you please, designate as Jewett’s No. 2. I do not 
myself believe that these two rams are very near¬ 
ly related to each other, if at all of the same fam¬ 
ily or blood. Will Mr. J. have the goodness to 
inform us in regard to it. 
I would here inquire of Mr. Jewett, whether he 
himself, bred his ram No. 2. If not, who did ? I 
am aware that Mr. H. S. Randall, in an elaborate 
defence and puff of Mr. Jewett’s sheep, (another 
disguised ram advertisement, of the true Paular 
sort, headed as usual, with a decoy or catch-pic- 
