Effective farming; a text-book for Effective farming; a text-book for American schools effectivefarming00samp Year: 1919 398 Effective Farming 199. Long-wool breeds. — The breeds of long-wool sheep are Leicester, Cots wold, and Lincoln. The animals are raised chiefly for mutton. They are the largest sheep grown and are large-framed and square-bodied with broad backs. The fleeces are more open, coarser, and longer than those of the other classes. On account of their size they are best suited for level lands where feed can be obtained without much travel. They stand wet weather well, the long w
Effective farming; a text-book for Effective farming; a text-book for American schools effectivefarming00samp Year: 1919 398 Effective Farming 199. Long-wool breeds. — The breeds of long-wool sheep are Leicester, Cots wold, and Lincoln. The animals are raised chiefly for mutton. They are the largest sheep grown and are large-framed and square-bodied with broad backs. The fleeces are more open, coarser, and longer than those of the other classes. On account of their size they are best suited for level lands where feed can be obtained without much travel. They stand wet weather well, the long wool shedding water better than that of the middle-wool breeds. The lambs do ^ -_^ not mature so rapidly d Fig. 174. — Leicester ewe. nor fatten so young as those of middle-wool animals. Leicester. — The first breed of sheep to be im- proved by careful selec- tion and breeding was the Leicester (Fig. 174). Robert Bakewell, one of the early and foremost breeders of live-stock in England, used these ani- mals in his work. Leicesters have a characteristic appearance of head and face ; the head is bare of wool from the ears forward and the face is lean and tapers toward the muzzle with a slightly Roman nose and is covered with short, white hair with an occa- sional black spot. The ears and legs, like the face, are covered with hair. The form is square, the back wide and well covered with flesh, and the rump prominent. The animals are the smallest of the long-wool breeds, the rams weighing from two hundred twenty-five to two hundred fifty pounds and the ewes from one hundred seventy-five to two hundred pounds. The fleece is long, white, and fine, and hangs in locks that are smaller than those of the other long-wool breeds. Cotswotd. — The native home of these sheep (Fig. 175) is
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