. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Celebrated with The Scotcli mountain sheep, called the Hard-wick breed, lives on the rocky slopes of thenorth of Scotland ; its wool resembles that ofthe preceding species, but the head and legsare white. It has terrific horns, which curlround in front of the head in great animal is hardened to the most intensecold, to violent winds, and to deep snows,under which it seeks its food. The Shetland sheep is part moorland andpart mountain sheep. It has no horns, andits wool is of a peculia
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Celebrated with The Scotcli mountain sheep, called the Hard-wick breed, lives on the rocky slopes of thenorth of Scotland ; its wool resembles that ofthe preceding species, but the head and legsare white. It has terrific horns, which curlround in front of the head in great animal is hardened to the most intensecold, to violent winds, and to deep snows,under which it seeks its food. The Shetland sheep is part moorland andpart mountain sheep. It has no horns, andits wool is of a peculiar soft, warm ,and was much in vogue formerly for tin-manufacture of furs, and it is now knittedinto shawls and other warm garments bythe women of the Shetland Isles. Of thesebreeds the Southdown, Shropshire, Dorset,Hampshire, and Oxford Down are bestknown in the United States. Next to the almost boundless are those .•\ Welsh Ram l82 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS Before the reign of Alexander Severus silkand cotton were unknown, and the Romanswore nothing but woolen garments; they likedthem fine and were ready to pay highprices for them. In order to iprove the wool of the Taranto sheep they imporanimals from Africa,which they crossedwith their own, thusobtaining a veryfine, soft wool. Tothese they addedsheep from Anda-lusia and Cordovain Spain, and fromPolenta in Italy,which were alreadyfamous for the finetexture of their blackor dark brown fleece Ovid, who devotes to sheep certain verses full of gratitude tells us how they were valued not onlv , ,, ■ . ^ A Merin for their wool but also for their milk and flesh. Nevertheless the Merinos and their ancestors have always been sheep for wool rather than for butchering. Ancient breeders
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