Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . considerably finer than the SaS )n wool figured. J 42 SHEEP HUSBANDRr IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styria, south of Vienna, in Austria. Th«inferiority of the American to the German wool is not due to climate oTother natural causes, nor is it owing to a want of skill on the part of outl)rceclers. It is owing to the fact that but a very few of our manufaclurers have ever felt willing to make that discrimination in prices wh
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . considerably finer than the SaS )n wool figured. J 42 SHEEP HUSBANDRr IN THE SOUTH. from Europe, which came from Styria, south of Vienna, in Austria. Th«inferiority of the American to the German wool is not due to climate oTother natural causes, nor is it owing to a want of skill on the part of outl)rceclers. It is owing to the fact that but a very few of our manufaclurers have ever felt willing to make that discrimination in prices which woulrender it profitable to breed those small and delicate animals which produce this exquisite quality of wool. No American breeder thinks of hous-ing his sheep from the summer rains and dew, or observing any of the hot-house regulations—at least in the summer—of Graf Hunyadi, or BatonGeisler ! If he did, his wool would not probably pay half of its first our manufacturers wish to find these wools in the liome market,they must learn to fay for them in the liome market as liberally as theyare compelled to to obtain them in foreign ones!. THE NEW LEICESTER, OR BAKEWELL. The portrait above is copied from one of a sheep of this variety, belong-ing to the Duke of Bedford, given in Mr. Youatts work on Sheep. • The unimproved Leicester was a large, heavy, coarse-wooled breedof sheep, inhabiting the midland counties of England. It is described alscas having been a slow feeder, and its flesh coarse-grained, and with littleflavor. The breeders of that period regarded only size and weight offleece. The celebrated Mr. Bakewell, of Dishley, was the first who adopt-,mI a system more in accordance with the true principles of breeding. He•ele<;ted from the flocks about him those sheep whose shape possesseaihe peculiarities which he considered would produce the largest propor-tion of valuable meat, and offal, and having observed that animals of medium size possess a gr
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