 One of these, Emperor, cut an 11.4 kg (5.1 kg clean) fleece.They also bought two sons of Old Grimes, a famous plain-bodied Vermont ram, but from then on they bred only from their own sheep.In 1871, Fred Peppin said,

"We were satisfied with the type of wool that the country would grow, instead of endeavoring to produce what the climate and soil continually fight against.