. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. hich appearon even the very young lambs. T/if Welsh mountain siteep resem-bles the latter except that the ewehas no horns. The bhiek-faced sheep oi the moun-tains resembles the moorland sheepin its long, coarse fleece and the color of the Merino they have been the most popular breedsheatl, which is spotted with black; the fleece in America; and now since wool has becomeis so long that it almost sweeps the ground. secondary, they arc likcl_\- to have a clean field in the future. VII. The Merino Sheep The Merino race for
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. hich appearon even the very young lambs. T/if Welsh mountain siteep resem-bles the latter except that the ewehas no horns. The bhiek-faced sheep oi the moun-tains resembles the moorland sheepin its long, coarse fleece and the color of the Merino they have been the most popular breedsheatl, which is spotted with black; the fleece in America; and now since wool has becomeis so long that it almost sweeps the ground. secondary, they arc likcl_\- to have a clean field in the future. VII. The Merino Sheep The Merino race forms an inde-pendent type of mountain sheep ofvery ancient origin. The mostancient Roman writers — Pliny,Strabo, and others —have written onthe ancestors of the Merinos and onthe method of treating them. Virgilsings of them in his Gcorgies.■ Shall I here describe, he says, the shepherds and the pastures ofLibya, whose few hamlets containscarce any huts ? There the flocksbrowse day and night for months together, andtraverse the vast deserts without shelter, so. 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 plains.
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