Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-04-20


$5 per eve, no warrant, for the use of his
best bucks, one of which served three
hundred ewes. He said that his bucks
were too much crowded, aud that he shall
charge $40 the coming season. Sells his
buck lambs from $l0O to $1,000 each.
Mr.. W. W. Jefferson, of Shuftsbury, Vt.
told us he was authorized to pay Mr.
Hammond $4,000 for twenty light eve
lambs. Mr. Hammond had previously
refused $l0,500 for them, and held them
now at $4,000. He has flock of fifty
young breeding ewes which will average
about 100 pounds each, from which he
expects to show. an average of IL pounds
of wool each, unwashed at the next clip.
Those ewes are considered by many per-
sons the best flock of fifty ewes in the
world. Four hundred dollars each would
not buy the poorest of them. Mr.. Bot
tom above alluded to paid Mr.. Hammond
$1,000 for two ewes last fall .and those
were not the best; and $500 would not
secure the pick of one f:om that flock.
Taking the cars we reached Mr. Meecb's
place at Shelburn, and found collection
of some fly persons attending his sale of
grade, Atwood and Hammond sheep.
Whether owing to the very cold weather,
the quality of the sheep or the auctionecr,
the sheep seemed to sell very slow. The
grades sold in pens of five to ten each, at
somesix or seven dollars each, with few
bidders, when, becoming discouraged, they
! adjourned to lot of some fourteen old
ewes, many Of them toothless, varying in
age from fourteen to eighteen years, from
Mr.. Hammond's flock. ! give the prices
at which they we're struck off one $68,
$lO6, SCI, $l0l, $50. &C., and taking
age and price we concluded we had seen
about enough of the elephant, and would
return home, but the cars being about 3
hours behind time, SO that we must lose
our connection at Rutland, we concluded
to 60 back to Middlebury, and the next
day 60 out to Cornwall and see more
sheep. The result of our observation the
next day and the day after was as follows: :
Mr.. Henry Hammond has l40 sheep,
which suppose he thinks are about equal
to Mr. Edwin Hammond's. Has been
offered $4,000 for one buck lamb. R. I.
Sampson of Cornwall has two yearsold
ewes for which he paid $50 each when
lambs; price now for the four, $1,000
Mr.. Merrill Bingham of Cornwall has %
yearlng ewes which he values at $4,000.
Mr.. Bingham has about 200 sheep; val
ues eve lambs at 500 each and buck
lambs ct 5000. $500 and $500. E. S.
Stowell has about 1870 very good sheep !;
values his buck lambs on an average at
$lO0; one buck lamb at $1,000; ewes
from 500 to $1,000 Messrs. Mead &
Pcet have about 1870 sheep; 30 yearling
ewes which they value $500 each. Edgar
Sanford sold last season 20 lambs for
$1,000 sold George W. Campbell year
ling ewes for 5000. H. Dean sold buck
lamb for $1,000. G., d. Lane sold 80
sheep to one man for $4,000, sold II year
ling ewes for $l250, raised As lambs two
years ago and has sold them all for an
average of S74 cash. S. S. Rockwell
keeps 200 sheep, and sold one buck lamb
for $70O' The aocks we sawin Middle
bury and Cornwall are all pure Spanish
merenos, mostly of the Atwood family,
although some of them are mixed with
the Rich and other Spanish importations,
and were valued nearly as follows: AT
wood sheep improved by Mr.. Hammond,
first quality; Atwood sheep. but not
, straight Hammond sheep, second quality
, mixtutc of Atwood Rich and other i'm.
: portations, third quality. One gof tho
assessors Of Cornwall told me the sheer
, of that town we're valued in town tax
ussessmcnts--purc bloods from $50 tc
$50 per ewe;. bucks more according t.
!, to value. We learned afterwards tha
there were strangers employed at MIR
r Mceck's as by bidders and that the posi-
). tive sales we're not numerous -7b1p
a I'VE have stated things as stated t.
,,s and os seen bv us. and we being stran