Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . e in upland districts in the vicinity ofmarkets. They have been introduced into every part of the British Do-minions, and imported into various other countries. The Emperor ofRussia paid Mr. Ellman three hundred guineas for two rams, and in ISOO a ram belonging to the Duke of Bedford, was let for one season at eightyguineas, two others at forty guineas each, and four more at twenty-eightguineas each. These valuable sheep were introduce
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . e in upland districts in the vicinity ofmarkets. They have been introduced into every part of the British Do-minions, and imported into various other countries. The Emperor ofRussia paid Mr. Ellman three hundred guineas for two rams, and in ISOO a ram belonging to the Duke of Bedford, was let for one season at eightyguineas, two others at forty guineas each, and four more at twenty-eightguineas each. These valuable sheep were introduced into the UniteaStates a few years since by Col. J. H. Powell, of Philadelphia, and a smallinimbei was imported by one of the members of this Committee in last were from the flock of Mr. Ellman, at a cost of S60 ahead. Sev-eral other importations have since taken place. The ram and ewe, the portraits of which are given, are the descendantsof the importation of Francis Rotch, Esq., alluded to in the precedibgparagraph. They are most spirited likenesses, and were kindly furnishedme by that gentleman, to accompany this Letter. They are exceedingly. characteristic of the Ellman stock. Not so large as the later importatiun^of Mr. Rotch from tlie celebrated flock of Mr. Webb, they are, iu the 148 SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. opinion of gentleman, as well as in my ovm, a more beautifulljformed and not less profitable animal. For compactness—great weight ii;3 small compass—they are perhaps unnvaled. The following is the description of the perfect South-Down by Mr. Ell*man, the founder of the improved breed : *• The head small and hornless ; the face speckled or gray and neither too long nor frio«hon ; the lips tnni, and the space between the nose and the eyes narrow; the under jawor chap fine ana thin; the ears tolerably wide and well covered with wool, and the tore-bead also, and the whole space between the ears well protected by it, as a defence againstthe flv
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