No. 50.-My flock of sheep number nearly 400, mostly ewes, 200 of which are Southdowns; some half, three-quarter, seven-eighths, and many full blood. I bought a buck and ewe at the sale of imported stock, by the Clinton and Fayette Importing Company; crossed them with a stock of mixed blood, of Saxony and the old Merino. A few years afterward I purchased a fine Southdown buck, raised by Mr. James Anderson, of Ross county, O.; he, I think, bought a number of them at the sale of the Madison County Importing Company. The balance of my flock I purchased in Kentucky; they are a mongrel breed-crosses of Bakewell, Cotswold, Merino and native. The value of the Southdown consists in the superior qualities of the mutton, and also the economy in producing it. They are a hardy sheep, producing about four pounds of wool, of a coarse quality, and a majority of the ewes will produce and rear twin lambs if properly cared for. Yours respectfully, R. R. SEYMOUR. COTSWOLDS. For history of Cotswolds see page 447 of Ohio Agricultural Report for 1862. 7T. S. McFarland, Westville..| 1| 25 |Full Cotsw❜ds|1860, T. S. McF..|Harrison co., CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Ky. 8 W. Leuty, Middlefi'd Centre. 7 71 Full Cotsw'da 1849, R. Jackson. (1849, England. 10 J. Matthias, Logan................ .. 2 100 Cotswolds ........ 11, Jacob Shuff, Sharonville 12G. W. Smith, 13 John Hammel, Carthage 14/Wm. Squire, Capopa.. 15 Thos. Aston, Elyria.. .... 29 Full Cotsw❜ds(1850, W. S....... 1850, Lorain co., O. 17 62..do.................. [T. A.. ..Imported England. 16 Geo. Rudge, Boardman.....10 66 MAHONING COUNTY. 401 to full Cots (G. & J. Rudge...(England. 2 80..do.. 1860, England. Rudge & Bro..... 1851, 66 66 MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 20 Mrs. McCammon, W. Zanesv'el.. 50 Cotswolds.................. MORROW COUNTY. 21/Jos. Furnar, jr., Waynesville.| 1| 10,Cotswolds...A. P. O'Neale... MÁRION COUNTY. 22 T. V. Reber,Upper Sandusky.. 30 Cotswolds...... OTTAWA COUNTY. [Vermoat. 23 H. H. Bredbeck, Port Clinton 250 Cotswolds.[1858, H. H. B.... [T. Aston, Lorain co. O 24 Gerett Bredbeck, 27 Matthew Briggs, Plymouth...[10] 24 Cotsw. thor'd[Wm. Briggs, Sen./B. & Tate, Bedford, O UNION COUNTY. 28A. Erwin, Irwin....... 131 100 to full Cotsw. H. Stocks....... No. 7.-On the 1st of September, 1860, I brought from Kentucky four head of pure-blooded Cotswold sheep, and on the 5th day of this month I brought fourteen head more, all and each of which will produce twelve pounds of merchantable wool. They were purchased of Robert Scott, Esq., of Harrison county, Kentucky, at an average cost of $12 per head. They have been remarkably healthy thus far, are excellent feeders, and are remarkable for their gentility and kindness. In a few days I will go again to Kentucky for a car load, and as soon as I return I will notify you of my importation, if desirable. I think them far the best for home consumption, both wool and carcass. Some of my best will weigh three hundred pounds-average, two hundred and twenty pounds, T. S. MCFARLAND. No. 13.-I take the present opportunity of furnishing such information as I can from my own experience in sheep raising for the year 1862. I kept three hundred; and from two hundred and fifty ewes raised about two hundred and fifty lambs, fifty of which I selected and kept, the rest' I sold for $2 per head when three months old. Fifty wethers when shorn I sold for $3.75 per head. My wool brought sixty cents per pound, and on an average for the flock, $2.18 cents per head, which gives a net profit per head for 250 ewes and fifty wethers, as follows: The fifty lambs selected will fill the place of the wethers sold, and leaves the flock as good as last year. I should state that my lambs came about the 1st of March, and the ewes were housed and carefully tended. Earlier lambs would be better for the butcher, but would be more likely to be lost. My manner of keeping is to feed corn once a day, and then let the flock run out on the meadows, with hay at night when they return to the yard. If the farmers would keep sheep instead of dogs, it could be done with profit. A farm of one hundred acres could keep fifty and not feel the expense, while the profits would be handsome. Yours with respect, JOHN HAMMEL. No. 14.-I first bought of Mr. Joel Townshend, of Avon, in 1850, one buck and three ewes. In 1852 I got from him another buck and ewe; in 1854 another buck from him, and in 1856 another one. These were crossed with Leicesters and Cotswolds. Since then I have crossed with a Cotswold imported from England by Mr. Humphreys of Parma. The last buck I imported from Canada in 1861, bred by Mr. John Snell was a Cotswold. My flock now consists of fifty-six sheep, viz: 3 buck lambs ten months old, weighing 487 pounds; 8 wether lambs and 16 ewe lambs, which weigh 2,410 pounds: also 25 breeding ewes, weighing 4,085 pounds, and four yearling ewes that have been hurt by dogs that I did not weigh. I weighed my flock the 20th of February. I have sold 29 sheep for $472 since the 1st of September, 1862. I have thus given these particulars to the best of my ability. I stand alone in my neighborhood; there are none others that pay any attention to select breeding. Respectfully yours, WILLIAM SQUIRE. No. 16.-I imported from England, April, 1852, three ewes and two lambs, and at the same time we purchased here such Leicesters and Southdowns as we could get. They and their descendants have always been bred to Cotswold rams. Since the above date have imported from England two more Cotswold rams. Respectfully yours, GEO. RUDGE. No. 23. I have a few Southdowns, but I have not had them long enough to tell how they will do. I shear about 125 sheep annually. Last year my flock only averaged 5 pounds per head. They are becoming very popular in this vicinity. I have furnished the foundation for several flocks to my neighbors. Our country here is very level, and I find that the Cotswolds are much more healthy here than the Merinos were, and also make much better mutton. HARMAN H. BREDBECK. LEICESTERS. For history of Leicesters see pages 427 and 428 of Ohio Agricultural Report for 1862. 10 F. C. Vergon, Delaware... 1 721 Leicester.. |1850, T. C. V .. |O. and England. DEFIANCE COUNTY.. 11 Richard Knight, Farmer... 1 70 Leicester...............| 29 P. Sheperd, La Guardsville..| 1| 15 Leicester.............] J. Stoneman, Cuya hoga county. MAHONING COUNTY. 35|Abram Kline, Canfield ........| 21 30 Leicester.... Mr. Sheldon.. ..¡England. |