buck
'• Fortune," a descendant of Mr. Jarvis's importation. I*\Ir. Jewett
raised from that buck al)Out 200 lambs annually, Avliich he sold
ffom ten to twenty-five dollars, and some as high as iv|;50 each.
He sold several sheep sired by this buck, to Henry S. Randall, Esq.,
of Cortland Village, N. Y., on which he received the first and
second premiums at the State Fair at Poughkeepsie in 1844, and
with which, together with Mr. Jewett's buck, he published a
challenge for competition to the whole country.
In 1845, Mr. Jewett imported from England ten Spanish Meri-
nos from the flock of Lord Weston, of Essex, who was the most
noted brooder, and had the best flock of Spanish sheep in England.
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Six hundred of these sheep, he states, having been presented, in
1803, to George III.That king gave Lord Weston the privilege
of selecting from the flock, when first landed at Plymouth. These
Mr. Jewett thinks were much inferior to the best flocks in this
country. From the above, and some other additions, he kept for
several years a flock of from 500 to GOO blooded sheep.
In 1851, Mr. Jewett went to Europe, for the purpose of examin-
ing and purchasing sheep, and has been twice since for the samo
purpose. In France he purchased, at fifteen or twenty shipmerfts,
seven hundred French Merinos, which he selected from the three best
flocks in that country, owned by Messrs. Gilbert, Cugnot and
Guerin, and a few from the government flock at Rambouillet. These
sheep, including expenses cost about i>;55,000. He has sold most
of these at an average of about ^100, each, the sales amounting