Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . atisfaction. Both the Saxony and the Silesians haveexceedingly fine wool. In Australia many of the flocks have received aninfusion of Saxon blood; but at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-phia, there was nothing in the vast variety of these fleeces to induce 1032 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. Americ
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . atisfaction. Both the Saxony and the Silesians haveexceedingly fine wool. In Australia many of the flocks have received aninfusion of Saxon blood; but at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-phia, there was nothing in the vast variety of these fleeces to induce 1032 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. American breeders to make a change in their own fine-wooled cross of the French Merino on American Merinos, and a second cross,making the strain three-quarters American and one-quarter French, re-sulted in increased size, but the animals were tender and bad might have been expected, since the French Merinos are at best amongrel race. It is doubtful if now a flock of French Merinos can befound in the United States. XVII. American Merinos. So widely disseminated are this most valuable breed in every portion ofthe United States, and so well known are they, that it is not necessary togo into a description of their origin further than what has been Suffice it to say they are now divided into three families, known as theAtwood, the Rich, and the Hammond Merinos, from the names of thethree original breedei*s of these strains. They have been improved bylong continued and careful selections. XVIII. The Atwood and Hammond Merinos. The Atwood Merinos were originated in 1813 by Mr. Atwood, fromwhat were known as the Humphrey stock. About 1844 Mr. Hammond,from selections from the Atwood flock, produced the larger breed ofAmerican Merinos, perfect in the length and thickness of fleece andthickness of staple, and characterized by great looseness of the skin, whichlies in soft, low, rounded ridges over the body, but offering no obstructionto the shears. These were origin
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