Quotations on Sheep
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
1812 January 12. "We consider a sheep for every person in the family as sufficient to clothe it."(to John Adams)
1815 January 6. "It is indispensably necessary that you take as much care of the lambs & sheep as if they were children."(to his overseer, Jeremiah Goodman)
1807 November 24. "I hope my sheep are driven up every night & carefully tended to." (to overseer, Edmund Bacon)
1809 March 3. "Bring a couple of pair of true-bred shepherd's dogs. You will add a valuable posession to a country now beginning to pay great attention to the raising of sheep."(to Dupont de Nemours)
1793 June 26. "I had never before considered, with due attention, the profit from sheep"(to George Washington)
1809 November 12. I return to you a thousand thanks for the fine pair of sheep you have sent me. They arrived in perfect health & so continue."(to William Thornton)
1810 May 13. "We may sell the male lambs of every year for such reasonable price as, in addition to the wool, will pay for the maintenance of the flock."(to James Madison)
1809 February 24. "[To] reduce our future demands on England fully one half, we are all eager to get into the Merino race of sheep."(to Marquis de Lafayette)
1809 May 27. "I am very much pleased indeed that you are likely to get so cleverly into the way of raising the Merino sheep. I am sure it will be a very easy business & of great profit." (to former servant Joseph Dougherty)
1810 April 27. "I have reserved the pair of [shepherd's] dogs for yourself. Besides their wonderful sagacity & never ceasing attention to what they are taught to do ... they make the best farm dogs or house dogs I have ever seen." (to William Thornton)
1810 May 10. "I shall consider the acquisition of this race of sheep as for the public benefit, not my own personal one, & fulfill that end in the best way I can." (to J. H. Hoe)
