The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-02-14
COMMUNICATION.
For the Northern Galaxy.
SHEEP.

NIlEEI.
Ma. EDrroR,-The letter from Mr.. Ran
dali which appeared in the Jan. No. of the
Cultivator, has drawn out Mr.. Stickney,
through your columns this week. His attack
upon me with the addition of your own,
made quite display in last weeks paper.
am inclined to believe that if Mr.. Stick
ney had deferred his letter until after he had
seen the February No of the Cultivator, in
which endcayored to make some corrections
to the statements made by Mr.. Randall, he
would have been more mild in his communi-
cation. should not at this time trouble you
with reply to any part of Mr.. SticRey's
letter if your readers were generally str0scrl-
ters TO the Cultivator.
In the correction, gave Mr.. Stickney the
honor of raising the valuable stock buck
now in my possession, and also noticed that
! had sold some bucks of Fo:tune's besides
what had raised from him.
1t is far from me to rob Mr.. Stickney or
any other man Of the laurels they have won.
take the liberty TO state that the two
sheep sent to Mr.. Randall, and all the other
bucks by Fortune which have sold, not
only own the sire, but | have in my possess
ION every eve that raised them. 1t matters
little to me on whose premises the buck For
tune was dropped, or his lambs, which is only
three that have bought and sold that was
not dropped on my farn,sO long as | have the
buck and all the ewes that raised them.
have never made any statements about
Them to Mr.. Randall. or any other man, bun
what are facts, and am willing they should be
exposed to the public eve, if thereby it can
be- proved that have been in the least guilty
Of doing injustice 20 Mr.. Stickney or any 9TH
er person.
Respecting the weight of fleece of all the
yr0hmgS, ewes and bucks of Fortunes getting,
out of full blood merino ewes, think it can
be easily proved that 'they did shear be-
tween five and SIX pounds on average last
spring" | was so informed by the owners,
and they are men of undoubted veracity.
Jonathan Wilson Esq, of Shoreham. stat
ell TO me that he saved about thirty bucks
from his best ewes by Fortune, and that
they were all late lambs, dropped after the 10th
Of May, and to my know ledge they were not
fed on bread and butter" and he told me
they averaged between five and six pounds.
Mr.. Loyal c. Remelee and Myron Wright
Esq. told me the same respecting their lloc6s
Of full blood yearlings by Fortune. These
last named gentlemen raised eight full blood
bucks by Fortune which averaged over six
pounds washed wool, three out of the eight
shcared % pouads and one fourth. One of
these last Mr.. Wright has in his possession
now, the wool of which is fine enough TO suit
most any breeder, and was informed that he
offered to lay handsome wager with any one
so disposed, that he would clip more wool
from said sheep next spring than could be
sheared from any other of the same age in
the county.
And will challenge Addison County, or
the State of Vermont, to produce any num-
Der Of lambs from twenty-five to fifty, out of
any one flock, by one buck, that shall
shear as many pounds of clean wool as can
be sheared next June from the same number
OF lambs dropped on my farm of Fortunes get
ting.
Respecting the weight of said bucks 4th
fleece it was Just ten pounds. Said buck run
out day times with IFS ewes in the fall Of
1872, and most people will allow that itwoult
diminish the quantity of wool. Ills fleece
was taken off the third day after washing a
only ii months and days growth, he wa
washed at the same time and place with tho
rest OF my sheep under the falls, and heav,
stream of water, as faithful as the rest of m
flock, it being after several days of rainy wealth
er, THE 5th of June last.) Hence will leav
1t to the public TO decide, if he had not beel
sheared until the end of the year, he woult
have gained in pure lOoOL one pound more an
IN OIL and dirtfull another pound which woul
give him y pound fleece to say nothin
about the hundreds of locks that were pulle
out of the fleece by different individuals iron
time to time before he was sheared. and tn
hard service which he went through the faI
previous. However, it matters not in m,
opinion, about the ,ceight of the fleece of
buck, the true UaLue lies in the stock which h.
may produce.
have now about 800 Merino breeding eve
probably about 200 of them are ensciente b
Fortune, the remainder by another Merin
buck. | have also two hundred ewes of m
old flock ensciente by defendants of my tw
celebrated" heavy wooded bucks, and fe,
Of my best ewes by a buck that VIZ
out of the noted Rambouillet flock that VIZ
imported from France in 1910.
have also about 200 ewes, yearlings an
lambs, out of Pedro and Fortune.
As for my having Pauler Merino sheep
nave no more doubt about it than | shoul
nave In Native, Saxony or any other bree
VI sHeep or cattle, they can as well be distir