Sheep husbandry in the South: comprising a treatise on the acclimation of sheep in the southern states, and an account of the different breedsAlso, a complete manual of breeding, summer and winter management, and of the treatment of diseases .. . onsiderably finer than the Sason wool figured. 142 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styria, south of Vienna, in Austria. Theinferiority of the American to the German wool is not due to climate orother natural causes, nor is it owing to a want of skill on the part of ourbreeders. It is owing to the fact that but a very few of
Sheep husbandry in the South: comprising a treatise on the acclimation of sheep in the southern states, and an account of the different breedsAlso, a complete manual of breeding, summer and winter management, and of the treatment of diseases .. . onsiderably finer than the Sason wool figured. 142 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styria, south of Vienna, in Austria. Theinferiority of the American to the German wool is not due to climate orother natural causes, nor is it owing to a want of skill on the part of ourbreeders. It is owing to the fact that but a very few of our manufactur-ers have ever felt willing to make that discrimination in prices which wouldrender it profitable to breed those small and delicate animals which pro-duce this exquisite quality of wool. No American breeder thinks of hous-ing his sheep from the summer rains and dew, or observing any of the liot-house i-egulations—at least in the summer—of Graf Hunyadi, or BaronGeisler ! If he did, his wool would not probably pay half of its first our manufacturers wish to find these wools in the home market,they must learn to ^(7?/ for them in the hotne market as liberally as theyare compelled to to obtain them in foreign ones!. THE NEW LEICESTER, OR BAKEWELL. The portrait above is copied from one of a sheep of this variety, belong-ing to the Duke of Bedford, given in Mr. Youatts work on Sheep. The unimproved Leicester was a large, heavy, coarse-wooled breedof sheep, inhabiting the midland counties of England. It is described alsoas having been a slow feeder, and its flesh coarse-grained, and with littleflavor. The breeders of that period regarded only size and weight offleece. The celebrated Mr. Bakewell, of Dishley, was the first who adopt-ed a system more in accordance with the true principles of breeding. Heselected from the flocks about him those sheep whose shape possessedthe peculiarities which he considered would produce the largest propor-tion of valuable me
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