Vermont Reghter of May 31st, 1854, we find an article
containing a statement of his sales from September 1st 1853, to
May 1st, 1854, from which we collect the following summary.
The sheep were French Merinos, and the amount of sales, during
the above mentioned eight months, was ^43,302,50. All but the
amount of §7,033, which were sold by an agent at the west, were
sold by himself on his farm in Cornwall, to persons living in each
of the States of Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
New York, Missouri, Connecticut and Vermont. He states also,
that his sales of sheep for the last year,* have amounted to
between thirty and forty thousand dollars ; and that the average
price for which his French sheep have been sold, is ^175. ]\Ir.
Bingham thinks, that both the Spanish and French sheepof Ayer-
shires, Herefords and Durhams, are quite common in the north part
of the County, and, to some extent, prevail in other parts. Wight-
man Chapman, Esq., then of Weybridge, kept on his farm, for
eight or ten years, a very celebrated Ayershire bull, presented to
him by John P. Cushing, Esq., of Massachusetts, which was es-
teemed by many the best bull in the country. The editor of the
Albany Culllvaior, v*'ho had examined him, in the number for
August 1845, says : " He is a good bull, has a small clean head,
clean limbs, a well shaped body and mellow skin. With the excep-
tion of Mr. Archibald's bull, sent to the Poughkeepsie Show from
Montreal, he is decidedly the best bull we have ever seen." The
blood of this animal has been extensively diffused through