The horse and other live stock . if he expects to gain more as agrazier, he will use the Leicester ram more freely. Sheep of this breed, now of established reputation, have beenimported into the United States by Messrs. Corning andGotham, of Albany, and bred by the latter. THE CHEVIOT. On the steep, storm-lashed Cheviot hills, in the extremenorth of England, this breed first attracted notice for their great hardinessin resisting cold,and for feedingon coarse, heath-ery herbage. Across with theLeicester, prettygenerally resortedto, constitutes theimproved Cheviotreadily amalga-mates
The horse and other live stock . if he expects to gain more as agrazier, he will use the Leicester ram more freely. Sheep of this breed, now of established reputation, have beenimported into the United States by Messrs. Corning andGotham, of Albany, and bred by the latter. THE CHEVIOT. On the steep, storm-lashed Cheviot hills, in the extremenorth of England, this breed first attracted notice for their great hardinessin resisting cold,and for feedingon coarse, heath-ery herbage. Across with theLeicester, prettygenerally resortedto, constitutes theimproved Cheviotreadily amalga-mates with theLeicester—the rams employed in the system of breeding,which has been extensively introduced for producing the firstcross of this descent, being of the pure Leicester breed—andthe progeny is superior in size, weight of wool, and tendencyto fatten, to the native Cheviot. The benefit, however, maybe said to end with the first cross ; and the progeny of thismixed descent is greatly inferior to the pure Leicester in form. A CHEVIOT EWB. THE CHEVIOT. 55 and fattening properties, and to the pure Cheviot in hardinessof constitution. The improved Cheviot has greatly extended itself through-out the mountains of Scotland, and in many instances sup-planted the black-faced breed; but the change, though oftenadvantageous, has in some cases been otherwise—the latterbeing somewhat hardier, and more capable of subsisting onheathy pasturage. They are a hardy race, however; wellsuited for their native pastures, bearing, with comparative im-punity, the storms of winter, and thriving well on poor purest specimens are to be found on the Scotch side of theCheviot hills, and on the high and stony mountain farms whichlie between that range and the sources of the Teviot. Thesesheep are a capital mountain stock, provided the pasture re-sembles those hills, in containing a good proportion of richherbage. Though less hardy than the black-faced sheep ofScotland, they are more profita
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