Animal products; . TWO-YEAR OLD SOUTHDOWN, SHOWN AT TAUNTON, 1875. brated for her sheep. The leading and most improved short-woolled breed is the small brown-faced Southdown, chiefly BRITISH BREEDS OF SHEEP. occupying the hills of Sussex, but also now diffused over othercounties. Its fleece, short and fine, weighs from three to fou. DORSET RAM, SHOWN AT CROYDON, 1875. pounds; and its mutton, fine in flavour and grain, weighs, intwo-year-old wethers, about eighteen pounds the quarter.

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