. 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 . nsiderably finer than the Saxon wool figured. 142 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styrla, 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 breeds. Also, a complete manual of breeding, summer and winter management, and of the treatment of diseases . nsiderably finer than the Saxon wool figured. 142 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styrla, 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 dcio, or observing any of the hot-liouse reo^ulations—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 hom,e market,they must learn to pay for them in the liome market as liberally as they*are 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-ino- to the Duke of Bedford, given in Mr. Youatts work on. Sheep. The unimproved Leicester was a large, heavy, coarse-w5t)led breedof sheep, inhabiting the midland counties of England. It is described alsoas having been a slow feeder, and its flesh coarse-grained, and witliJittleflavor. The breeders of that period regarded only size and weight offleece. The cfelebrated Mr>, of Dishley, was the first who adopt-ed a system more in,accordance with the true principles of breeding. Heselected from the flt)cks about him those sheep whose shape possessedthe peculiarities which he considered would produce the largest propor-tion of va
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