Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-17

any fault TO HIM, that he did not breed ac-
cording TO our present views ana stan
dards. Then we We're making broad
cloths and wanted fine woods; now we
make no broadcloths and really fine cloths
are almost out of fashion among us. MIR.
Jarvis, have no doubt, for many years,
gave the preference to Escureal rams, He
therefore created long and open wooded
sheep, nearly as fine as the Saxons in
quality, They were comparatively light
colored, and had no excess of yolk.
Mr., Atwood ioreshadowed the policy,
and were it not for making a bull, | would
saw, trod in the footsteps of some Of his
illustrious successors. Long before Gen,
Taylors day, he issued the order to give
those who stood in front of him as buyers,
more grease
The Rich sheep then stood between the two
preceding families in point Of grease, was
coarser than either Of them in wool, but
also had more wool than either of them,
AT that precise point an able breeder
would, think, have found the most rapid
road to success in a cross between two
perhaps all three of these families. For
quantity of WOOL short legs, round ribs
and constitution, he would have gone to
the Rich or Paular family, For fine, sty-
lsh, even wool, abundance of yolk and
dark color, he'wouldshave gone 10 the At
wood or Inlantado family, Jarvis or
mixed Leonese blood might have come
more or less in play, for 1t always exceed
ed expectation when employed in crossing,
All Of you who are from the west side of
Addison county remember what noble an
imals, like Fortune, Black Hawk, Con-
sui, &C., sprung from mixing the Jarvis
and Rich stocks. But it was very fortu-
nate that this general mixture did not
take place.
Then the sheep breeders of Vermont
and of our country generally would have
had but one string to their bow-now they
have several.
The Jarvis family as distinct one has
mostly disappeared but its blood mingles
deeply and not injuriously in some of the
choicest focks of our land.
The Rich flock was crossed in 1928
by its then proprietor, the late John 7.
Rich, with Jarvis rama particularly
dark, thick, heavy feeced one-his object
being to avoid the effects of in-and-in
breeding, by dash of new blood and al
so to improve the quality of his wool
Subsequently dip or two of Atwood
blood was taken for the same purpose and
also to increase the yolkiness of the wool
and to give it a darker external color.
This was done by breeding first to an At
wood ram, presently to be described, and
then more or less with certain mixed blood,
descendants of that Atwood ram and par
ticularl grandson of his, known as the
"Old Robinson Ram" But the Ricn fam
lily have always made it point not to
merge the characteristics Of their sheep /;
but after taking a cross, to breed back to-
wards the old line.
Another branch or two of this family
We're created in Shoreham, not differing
very essentially from the preceding; but
one of them containing rather more JARVIS
and the other rather more Atwood blood
Their history is briefly as follows: In
1874 Judge Wright of Shoreham bought
at the New York State Fair at Pough-
kvUpsle, a ram OF Stephen Atwood. MIR.
Hammond and myself were present when
he was loaded up for his journey to this
state. On reaching Shoreham Judge
Wright sold him to Prosper Ellithorp of
Brdport and Loyal G. Remelee of Shore
ham, before he was taken from the wagon;
the Judge reserving the use of him for a
certain time.
The Atwood ram, as this is called, Was
a low, thick, round, dark colored, well
covered, excellent wooded animal. He was
yolk" and well wrinkled On a hall
blood Jarvis and half blood Black Hawk
eve Il. e., got by Judge Wright's Black
Hawk the Atwood ram got the Ellithorp
ram, an animal of good qualities as a stock
getter, but larger and rangier than his
sire, the Atwood ram. shall only create
confusion if here attempt to trace out
all the details of these pedigrees. have
recently done it on paper, and where it
will soon be published, so that all who
choose can investigate their accuracy.
Sufic it now to say that the Ellithorp ram
was half of Atwood blood and of the re-
naming half considerably more than a
molety was Jarvis blood. L.
Mr.. Ellithorp sold the EIlthorp ram,
then lamb, in the fall of l845, to Eras-
tus Robinson Of Shoreham. While owned
by the latter gentleman he got the "Old
Robinson RAM" His dam was one of 80
ewes bred by Mr.. Ellithorp and sold by
him to Mr.. Robinson In the spring of 184S.
The dam of the Robinson ram was got by
the Atwood ram, already mentioned, and
her dam was pure Paular or Rich eve,
bred by Mr.. Robinson and sold by him to
Mr.. Elithorp in the fall of 1743. You
who are familiar with pedigrees can de-
termine the amount of each Of the three
kinds of blood, Atwood, Jarvis and Rich,
| he had in his veins.
This animal inherited strongly the ex-
cellencies then existing in the Atwood and
Rich families, and proved an admirable
stock getter. Crossed on Erastus Robin
sons ewes which had good deal of At
wood blood in them, both by his buying
ewes of that stamp from Mr.. Elllthorp and
by his using the Atwood ram before he
bought the Elhthorp ram, he created one
| branch of what are now freouently termed