The farm-yard club of Jotham: . ten pounds of wool. Shropshire Downs are saidto dress from twenty-five to thirty-pounds per quarter, and tashear from five and one half to seven pounds of wool; and theyare highly recommended as strong, healthy, and heavy ani-mals. Cotswolds, at two years old, are made to weigh thirty-fivepounds to the quarter; and it is said that a ram of this breedhas sheared seventeen pounds of good coarse wool. SouthDown wethers, at two years old, weigh from eighty-five to onehundred and twenty-five pounds, making more internal fat thanothers, and on this account being favor
The farm-yard club of Jotham: . ten pounds of wool. Shropshire Downs are saidto dress from twenty-five to thirty-pounds per quarter, and tashear from five and one half to seven pounds of wool; and theyare highly recommended as strong, healthy, and heavy ani-mals. Cotswolds, at two years old, are made to weigh thirty-fivepounds to the quarter; and it is said that a ram of this breedhas sheared seventeen pounds of good coarse wool. SouthDown wethers, at two years old, weigh from eighty-five to onehundred and twenty-five pounds, making more internal fat thanothers, and on this account being favorites with the average weight of their fleeces is in England three pounds ;in this country it is said to be four. Leicesters, at two yearsold, weigh from twenty-five to thirty-five pounds to the quarter,and yield about seven pounds of wool. So much for the Eng-lish breeds, which can also be fed in Canada, where labor isworth but little and grain less, and in the United States, where ;o8 THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF SOUTHDOWN RAM. there are luxuriant pastures and no winters. In harder cUmatesand with harder fare a different class of sheep is found to beprofitable. Throughout Scotland, and in Westmoreland, Lan-cashire, andNorthumbe r-land, the black-faced heathsheep abound ;in Wales a small,short, knottysheep; and onthe continent ofEurope the vari-ous small fine-woolled breedsare to be thesethe Spanish merino stands foremost, — a sheep which for cen-turies furnished the looms of Spain with the finest wool, andwhich have improved all the other breeds on the continentof Europe in-to which theirblood has beenintroduced, andhave given highvalue to theSaxonies andFrench especial-ly. These sheephave been large-ly introduced in-to America fromthe early part ofthe present cen-tury to the year 1811, and they have laid the foundation of allthe great flocks in the wool-growing sections of the the American wool-grower they have been a mine of wealth.
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