. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 648 SHEEP The size of the Romney Marsh sheep gives it a second-class rating among the large breeds, the mature rams weighing about 225 to 250 pounds and the ewes from 175 to 200 pounds. A New Zealand standard adopted in 1916 assigned 240 pounds as a very acceptable weight for the ram. The quality of Romney Marsh mutton is superior to that of the other long wools, being less coarse and more comparable with the heavier Down breeds, - such as the Hampshire and Oxford. The fat is more evenly distrib- uted and the bone is finer than in the case of Linc
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 648 SHEEP The size of the Romney Marsh sheep gives it a second-class rating among the large breeds, the mature rams weighing about 225 to 250 pounds and the ewes from 175 to 200 pounds. A New Zealand standard adopted in 1916 assigned 240 pounds as a very acceptable weight for the ram. The quality of Romney Marsh mutton is superior to that of the other long wools, being less coarse and more comparable with the heavier Down breeds, - such as the Hampshire and Oxford. The fat is more evenly distrib- uted and the bone is finer than in the case of Lincoln or Cotswold. The Romney Marsh as a feeder ranks very high on its native marshes, where it has held popular favor for a long period of time. Here the use of grain is the exception and not the rule. In Ar- gentina it has proved a very excellent feeder on the low-lying mead- ows of that country, and in New Zealand it has been received with special favor where low lands are common. At the Smithfield Club Show between 1895 and 1912, quoting Henry and Morrison, 65 yearling wethers, averaging six hundred and six days old, showed an average weight of 267 pounds, with a daily gain of .44 pound, while 73 lambs weighing 160 pounds at two hundred and fifty days old made an average gain of .64 pound a day. The crossbred Romney Marsh sheep, with Merino blood on the dam's side, have proved very satisfactory in Australia. Hawkes- worth states 1 that few crosses give equal results and none better, 1 Australian Sheep and Wool, Fig. 306. A Romney Marsh ram, champion in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco. Exhibited by R. Matthews, Featherston, New Zea- land. From photograph, by courtesy of the American Sheep Breeder Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Cha
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