. Sheep husbandry in the South: comprising a treatise on the acclimation of sheep in the southern states, and an account of the different breeds. Also, a complete manual of breeding, summer and winter management, and of the treatment of diseases . in upland districts in the vicinity ofmarkets. They have been introduced into every part of the British Do-minions, and imported into various other countries. The Emperor ofRussia paid Mr. Ellman three hundred guineas for two rams, and in 1800 a i-am belonging to the Duke of Bedford, was let for one season at eightyguineas, two others at forty guinea
. Sheep husbandry in the South: comprising a treatise on the acclimation of sheep in the southern states, and an account of the different breeds. Also, a complete manual of breeding, summer and winter management, and of the treatment of diseases . in upland districts in the vicinity ofmarkets. They have been introduced into every part of the British Do-minions, and imported into various other countries. The Emperor ofRussia paid Mr. Ellman three hundred guineas for two rams, and in 1800 a i-am belonging to the Duke of Bedford, was let for one season at eightyguineas, two others at forty guineas each, and four more at twenty-eightguineas each. These valuable sheep were introduced into the L^nitedStates a few years since by Col. J. H. Powell, of Philadelphia, and a smallnumber was imported by one of the members of this Committee in last were from the flock of Mr. Ellman, at a cost of S60 ahead. Sev-eral other importations have since taken place. The ram and ewe, the portraits of which are given, are the descendantsof the importation of Francis Rotch, Esq., alluded to in the precedingparaGrraph- They are most spirited likenesses, and were kindly furnishedme by that gentleman, to accompany this Letter. They are exceedingly. tWE. characteristic of the Ellman stock. Not so large as the later importationsof Mr. Rotch from the celebrated flock of Mr. Webb, they are, in the 148 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. opinion of that gentleman, as well as in my own, a more beautifullyformed and not less profitable animal. For compactness—great weigbt ina small compass—they are perhaps unrivaled. The following is the description of the perfect South-Down by Mr. Ell-man, the founder of the improved breed : The head smaD and hornless ; the face speckled or pray and neither too long nor tooshort; the liiis thin, and the space between the nose and the eyes naiTow; the under jawror chap fine ana thin; the ears tolerably wide and well covered with wool, and the fore-h
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