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TO the patriotick mind, few sights are more gratifying, than that of a man highly respectable for his learning, and for the political services he has rendered to his country, devoting the latter part of his life to the improvement of its agricultural and manufacturing interests. Such a character, is the author of the work now under consideration, and such are the employments of his age. Mr. Livingston has presented the publick with a very valuable work, on a subject but little attended to in the United States; and we entertain no doubt, but that a just value will be set upon his attempt to instruct the farmer and manufacturer, how to treat the invaluable Merino, and to prepare his fleece for manufacturing

While Mr. Livingston was minister of the United States, in France, he sent over two pair of the finest Merinos he could find, which arrived in safety in the spring of 1802. In 1806, he submitted to the Society of Useful Arts in New York, two essays on the subject of Merino Sheep. They were received with a degree of attention, which exceeded his hopes and the LEGISLATURE STEPPED FORWARD and seconded the ardour of the farmer by judicious encouragements. Finding him

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self frequently called upon for information, and being anxious to communicate all that his experience or inquiries had taught him upon the subject, as well as to keep alive the interest that he had happily excited in his fellow citizens, he believed that both might be effected, by the publication of a little volume, which should, in some sort, combine information with amusement; and, taken in connexion with what he had before written, serve as a kind of Shepherd's Manual; and point out to the rich and the poor, the easiest means of converting their flocks into Merinos; as well as the advantage that would accrue, both to themselves and their country, by the change."

Mr. Livingston first gives some account of the natural history of sheep, and their varieties; which, however curious and entertaining, shall be passed over, for the purpose of dwelling longer upon the more practical parts. Upon the Merino, he remarks, that the race varies greatly in size and beauty, in different parts of Spain. It is commonly rather smaller than the middle sized sheep of America. Castile and Leon have the largest, with the finest coats. Those of Soria are small, with very fine wool. These of Valencia,

which, like the last, do not travel, have fine wool, but of very short staple. He explains the reason for driving the sheep from one part of Spain to another, viz. for the purpose of procuring food; and gives a short detail of the Mesta, an abominable association, composed of rich and powerful persons, and some Monks, all proprietors of flocks; which, under the authority of government, made laws, and decided questions, relative to pasturage and flocks of sheep.*

After giving an account of the introduction of the Merino breed into France from Spain; the establishment of the national farm at Rambouillet; and taken a cursory view of English sheep, he notices the long woolled sheep of Mr. Custis of Virginia, and the Smith's island sheep of the same gentleman;† and then proceeds to the main subject of his work, p. 66. He remarks, with great justice and truth, that "the United States of America, appear to possess advantages in the breeding of sheep, which are unequalled by those of any part of Europe which he had seen.' These he enumerates, and then observes, that the first object with the farmer must be, to adapt his breed to his soil and situation. Thus, near large towns, flesh is the object; on wet or marshy ground, with rich, luxuriant grass, large sheep, bearing combing wool, should be preferred; but for every other kind of pasture, a preference should be given to the MERINO BREED. From France, he says, the best stock may be more easily obtained; but probably, by this time, Mr. Livingston has had occasion to change his opinion; for, if we have been rightly informed, several Merino sheep which were on board one of

our publick vessels, and destined for him, were seized, and detained. It is now known too, that no Merino, upon any consideration, is allowed to leave France, without a written permission from the emperour Napoleon. The difficulty of obtaining this amounts almost to a prohibition; and this circumstance should teach us to prize highly, the stock of Merinos, which we already have among us. But to return. Supposing the stock to be Merino, "ewes three years old, carrying the shortest and thickest coat, are to be selected, with the least hair on the hinder parts, and whose bellies are covered with wool. Next, provide a ram, possessing as much Merino blood as you can afford to purchase, broad in the chine and loins, deep in the carcase, straight back, ribs stout, so as to afford room for a large belly, well covered with wool, the forehead broad, eyes lively, testicles large, and if covered with wool, it will be an evidence of his taking after his sire. Let him be strong, close knit, and active. If the wool be thick, close, and greasy, full of yolk, and the breast and loins well covered with wool, you may rely upon his goodness.

"Supposing the ram to be half blooded, with the ewes described, he will give one fourth breed lambs, who will carry at least, one fourth more wool than your old stock, and this wool will not be worth less than fifty six cents per pound, if that of the ewes sold at thirty seven cents. The quality and quantity of the wool taken together, will nearly double the value of your fleeces in the first generation. Now let us see at what expense this advantage is purchased. The ram may cost $12.

The first year, if well kept, and not exhausted by too many ewes, five pounds of wool, worth one dollar per pound, as wool now sells; charge his keeping at one dollar and fifty cents; clear profit three dollars and fifty cents; that is thirty three per cent. on his original cost; so that instead of paying any thing for a ram which shall double the value of your stock, you have put only twelve dollars to a more advantageous interest than any other stock would have afforded. Suppose his original stock yielded him thirty six pounds, from which must be deducted the keeping, which will absorb the whole, his new stock being one fourth bred, will, in the increase and fineness of the wool, add, at least, thirty dollars more to it. Thus, for twelve dollars expended, he receives in eighteen months, when his lambs come to be shorn, thirty three additional dollars, and two fleeces from his ram, worth nine dollars more, and this all clear profit beyond the keeping of his sheep, which the old fleeces would but just have paid. But he should not stop here. The above profit upon his flock after the first year, and the price of his ram, which he should sell, will enable him to purchase a three fourth ram, say at twenty five dollars. Such a ram, with his one fourth breed ewes, will at once give him a half blood flock, and that without any expense; because he purchases him with the excess beyond what his original stock would have given him." This is a plain statement of very plain facts; and Mr. Livingston asks with great reason: "Is there any farmer so blind to his interest as to breed any longer the common sheep of the country, when his flock may be so easily and so reasonably renovated? The intelligent American agriculturists will readily answer this question."

Mr. Livingston has found one ram sufficient for sixty or seventy ewes, and he has even known one to serve a hundred; but he thinks he was injured by it, and concludes, that

forty is the proper number. He very properly advises the farmer to provide shelter for his ewes in the winter, during lambing, and disapproves of the common practice of permitting the sheep to run about the barn door, as they will frequently be hurt by the cattle, and timid ewes be driven from their food; wethers should be kept by themselves. When his ewes appear to make bag, he feeds them with the best hay, cornstalks, turnips, cabbage, or potatoes, and once or twice in a day they have a handful of wet bran. This gives them a flush of milk when the lambs drop, for want of which many lambs are lost. When the snow lies, if not too deep, they should be led to water, and bushes of pine, cedar, or hemlock, given them. Once a week salt should be given to them. When two weeks old, mark the lambs to show the de. gree of blood they possess, to prevent any mistake either in selling the lambs or in breeding from them. "Should any deformed or lame lambs be found in the flock, or any killed by accident, strip off the skin from such lamb, and cover with it either a twin lamb or the lamb of a young ewe who does not appear to be a good nurse, and shutting up the ewe that has lost her lamb, she will generally take it as her own. Should she refuse, she must be held for a day or two, when she will adopt it." Early lambs are to have fine hay and bran, or any succulent food. In April or May, when the sheep refuse hay, owing to their tasting grass, potatoes, rutabaga [Swedish turnip] parsnips and carrots are to be given, or the second growth clover which had been left uneaten the preceding year; or, still better, they may be turned in on rye sown for the purpose early with a double portion of seed. In summer, horses and sheep will feed together, but not horned cattle. Sheep, he has remarked, are fond of the daisy, as a change. Mr. Livingston notices the prejudice of the people of Europe, except Eng