Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . e-Downs is an old English breed whichwere kept on what was known as Marfe common, a tract of some 600,-OCO acres. They were horned ; black or brown faced ; hardy, and con-stitutionally excellent; yielding a medium fine fleece, of about twopounds weight; and about fifty pounds of excellent mutton when ma-ture. Crossed with th
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . e-Downs is an old English breed whichwere kept on what was known as Marfe common, a tract of some 600,-OCO acres. They were horned ; black or brown faced ; hardy, and con-stitutionally excellent; yielding a medium fine fleece, of about twopounds weight; and about fifty pounds of excellent mutton when ma-ture. Crossed with the Cotswold in the latter part of the last century,and later with the Leicester and South-Down, careful selection has pro-duced a sheep without horns ; faces and legs of a peculiar spotted grayor darker color ; small, firm head ; handsome ears ; thick but handsomeneck ; broad deep breast—a round-barreled, broad-backed, fine-hornedsheep, that at two years old, will dress 100 pounds, and under extra feed120 pounds, of excellent mutton. The fleece is long, glossy and willyield about seven pounds of washed wool. The ewes are prolific andgood mothers, and wherever known iu the United States and Canada,Are highly urized. VARIETIES OF SHEEP AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS 1027. ^ il-SL ?^^H^^^^HIkv ?fl^^^^^^p^^^^^^^^ 1028 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. Xm. South-Downs, ouce the most celebrated of the mutton breeds,both in England and the United States, ought probably still to be thefavorites wherever the production of mutton is the chief aim of thebreeder. But in the United States, wool is the most valua))le product ofsheep husbandry, and in England the South-Downs have, of late years,^jven place in many districts to the broods heretofore mentioned, Avhicheon)bine good mutton with superior wool. This is veiy generally ihecase in the United States, and especially in the West, except in thevicinity of large cities where superior mutton commands high price
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