Mr.Webb's flock then consisted of seven hundred breeding ewes, a proportionate number of lambs, and about four hundred rams of different ages.

It was from these rams that the animals were selected which were sent into every country in the civilized world.

The average price of their lettings was nearly 24 pounds each, although some of the rams brought the sum of 180 pounds, or nearly _nine hundred dollars_! What would some of the old-fashioned farmers of New England, of forty years ago, think of paying nearly a thousand dollars for the rent of a ram for a single year, or even one-tenth of that sum?
But this rentage was not a fancy price.

The farmer who paid it got back his money many times over in the course of a few years.

From this infusion of the Babraham blood into his flock, he realised an augmented production of mutton and wool annually per acre which he could count definitely by pounds.