Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
TENNESSEE WOOL.
MOFe About the Exhibit 10 he Wade
nc PRF1s-COI. Tom CFutch6s Id'A
Samples.

NJ PaFis-COi. Tom CFutchnetd'A
Samples.
Nashville American, 9th.l
So far the commissioner Of a%grieul-
ture, statistics and mines has forwarded
TO the Paris Exposition twenty speci.
mens and FIVE aseces Of Tennessee wool.
lie yesterday received from Colonel
Tom ~Crutch6eld, Of Hamilton county, a
splendid fleece done up in blue ribbon
and placed in a handsome ash and wal
nut box, made for the purpose, with a
glass top. On the ribbons are the fol.
lowing inscriptions:
Queen Of Amnicola, Improved Ten.
nessee, bred and owned by Tom Crutch.
field, at Amnicols, near Chattanooga,
Hsmilton county, Tenn"
"Lsmbed, 18th Of April, 1876; weight
Of carcass after sheariug, 1871 pounds;
weight Of secured fleece, 81 pounds;
length of staple, 10 inches"
In a letter from Mr. Crutchield he
states:
The foundation Of my flock of sheep
was the natives Of Tennessee. They
have been brought to their high state Of
perfection By judicious crosses and Sc
l%ections adapting them to our climate.
Blackwell had his improved Leiccsters,
Webb his improved Southdowns, Scott
bis improved Kentucky-Why should not
We have our improved Tennessee, espe.
cially when it pans out such results?'
The following letter 10 Commissioner
Killebrew came with the box containing
the Amnicols fleece:
ANYICoLA, NEAR CHATTANOOGA,
TENN, Nay 6, lS78.-DsAr Colonel: /
send you some tamples OF wool, taken
from my breeding eve this spring, one
years growth, and a sample taken from
the mother Of THE Queen OF Amuicola."
1t would not be toting fair" however,
to say that this sample wss the product
Of one year growth. 1t is the product
partly OF two years growth, from where
| left samples on her side last sesson
her wool usually measures from sixteer
to eighteen ioches-one years growth
| have had samples from her grown il
this way to easure twenty.seven inches
| send you these because they are pretty
and 10 simply show you what could b.
done.
/ have just had the photograph o
Queen taken, and | am worn out. Sh
IS worse than any babe, a perfect 6dget
| did not get as good a one as | wanted
but it is like some things / have heard q
before, the best | could do under tn
circumstances" | regret that the Ma
tons ward" holding Queen shows !
such rugged garb. he had on bis "Sur
days" in the morning when the fri
photos we're taken-and the only goo
one we gOt-but the negative was spoile
by his wife in her curiosity to see be
liege lord in a pictare. We had de
: paired Of getting any more; so after dir
ner, jim, the shepherd, came up in b
working garb, and hence the naturI
! Picture of " the ward" Truly, etc.,
Tom C~RUTCHFTELD.
The ward in the picture is q darke
holding the Queens head around to u
n camera so as to have her Photographic
8 Sambo is in broad grin, and is eviden
Is ly enjoying lhe thought of having b
ebony countenance transferred to pape
d With the ultimate expectation Of its q
Of tonishiug some Of the gay Parisians wi
may chance 10 look in upon him at Il
great international Exposition.
The wool now in the bureau viii
packed to-day and shipped to Gener
" LeDpc, at Washington, whence il "
IS be seot to Paris. AL such samples Sc
out will be returned to the bureau TO
kept on exhibition there.