The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-11-19
DlsreIIanp.
NEW-HAVEN. Oh. 81.

As the making of wooden cloths is 70 greatly
improved by the cardng machines lately erect
ed IN different places, it is probable that this
with the rapid increafe of our inhabitants, will
increaie the demand for wool at Ieaft in propor-
ton. and as the demand for wool has been grea-
ter than could be fupped, it remains for legiC-
lators to determine what further encourage
ment for the increafe and improvement in iheeo
and wool may be neceiiary for the public good
That ihcep afford light food, cloathing and an
excellent manure, are facts TO we'll known they
need no comment. For number of years pat
| have had deGre to improve the breed of
iheep, and have taken fomc meafures for that
purpoie. In the year 800 purchaied pair
of ,heep called the otter breed. This breed of
iheeP are well known by fome, but preiume
are unheard of by many others. They gener-
ally have long round bodies, thick necks and
brcaits, broad hips, very fbort legs that fand
wide part, and fome of them bend outward..
They cannot run or leap fences equal with o.
theirs, and mine have about the fame quantity
OF wool as the other kind, and fome finer.
My lambs by thote rams with other fheep have
generally been either of the otter or common
kind, but IN fome inftances they partake partly
of the fhape of both, and ttinG tbefe anne
liorate the breed. In Ofober, so2, obtain
ed one of the Spanifh Merino rams imported
my iheep, and by this means in the fpring,
1903, had fome of the half FLOODED rams Soon
AFTER the lambs had come, put them and their
dams with my other fhecp and lambs, and kept
them together through the fummer, and in the
tau feparated theie lambs my Others from the
Old iheep, and 70 hept them through the win
ter. In the fummer they were manifeGly diff
terent, and wintered much better than my other
lambs that lay with them, and at ihearine
yielded one fifth more in weight of wool on an
average than my other ffleep, aud the quality
tar iuperior--exceeding my expectation. This
wool was ipun and wove in my own family.
The wool was carded and the cloth drefled At
the works OF col. Humphreys, at Rimman Falls,
IN Derby, and by reputable merchants that
cloth has been Judged to be equal in quality to
Engliih broad cloth from fix TO fix dollars and
half per yard. The genuine breed of thofe
lheep are nearly the fame iize of our common
iheep, ard completely covered with wool, ex-
ceedIng line and thick, and yield more wool
than our common theep and much more oily
than the other wool, and by mixing them mine
nave lncreaied their iiZe and wool. ! have forre
OF me three quarter bloodeI their wool bears
a near resemblance TO the genuine and from NV
half bIooded rams 1.-THE two laft fcafons) have.
had number ofquarter blooded lambs, which
are large and yield more wool han nv half
bloodcd but not 70 fine. l have kept this breed
with iome of my other fheep for the purpofe OF
tar experiment, and from the obiervations of
three fummers and two winters, they have done
better in fummcr and winter than my others
think they are hardy, healthy breed of iheep.
BY theie experiments and obfervations with o.
theirs iii my neighborhood, / am convinced that
great improvement may be made in our fheep
and wool by mixing the breed with them, wor-
thy the attention of all that raife fheep, as well
as the public.
DANIEL HOLBROOK.
Derbr, GA. Of. l8o5