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. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. n between members of the same family is a sure and invaluable means, provided it is donewith perfectly healthy animals possessing greatvitality. This was the case with the solid andbony sheep that Bakewell made use of. Prop-agation between members ofthe same family, if pushed toofar, has its evil side in too greatrefining, leading to deteriora-tion,— a rock on which thenew Leicester breed has split,more or less, for its reputa-tion is not as widely extendednow as it was a century breed, producedas we have stated,
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. n between members of the same family is a sure and invaluable means, provided it is donewith perfectly healthy animals possessing greatvitality. This was the case with the solid andbony sheep that Bakewell made use of. Prop-agation between members ofthe same family, if pushed toofar, has its evil side in too greatrefining, leading to deteriora-tion,— a rock on which thenew Leicester breed has split,more or less, for its reputa-tion is not as widely extendednow as it was a century breed, producedas we have stated, was allpure white in body, head, andlegs, and was without head was long and slim,the neck short, enlargingconically toward the base,chest broad, shoulders andsides plump, back flat, loinsbroad, and the bones verysmall and delicate. Fatteningthese sheep gave them an al-most conical shape, the base of the cone beingat the breast and the truncated point at thehind parts. The skin was very delicate, the tailsmall, and the wool moderately long, but always. A Leicester Ram Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead inferior in quality to that of the old Hereford-shire breed. But for butchers meat this new THE SHEEP 177 Leicester breed carried tJTe day. Comparinga loin of it with that of a coarse Norfolk sheep,we found the latter nearly twice as fat and u
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