The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 94 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. generally carefully guarded against injury by being supplied with a sort of truck which is drawn about by the animal as it moves. A sheep of this kind bred in Astrachan has black fine frizzled wool, and the skins are highly valued as a fur for the ornament of cloaks and especially for the collars, and a strip down each side of the front and for the cuffs. The Tunis sh€ep has been introduced here from its Afri- can home, and like all other immigrants is stan
The domestic sheep its The domestic sheep : its culture and general management domesticsheepits01stew Year: 1900 94 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. generally carefully guarded against injury by being supplied with a sort of truck which is drawn about by the animal as it moves. A sheep of this kind bred in Astrachan has black fine frizzled wool, and the skins are highly valued as a fur for the ornament of cloaks and especially for the collars, and a strip down each side of the front and for the cuffs. The Tunis sh€ep has been introduced here from its Afri- can home, and like all other immigrants is standing on its merits as a valuable acquisition to our varieties. For some time it strove with its new surroundings, on the quite differ- ent conditions here from which it had been used to in its native African home, where it was a habitant of tlie moun- FAT TAIL SHEEP. tain districts of that part of the dark continent lying to the East of Algeria. Thus Mr. Kandall—generally well in- formed—made the mistake of asserting that this sheep had become extinct, the fact being that its hardy constitution enabled it to overcome difficulties of acclimatation, and it still remains as one of our adopted races and is especially now an American sheep. Its origin is kindly described by Mr. Rountree, of Indi- ana, who is now the owner of the largest flock in the United States. Mr. Rountree gives the following particulars of the American history of this breed: 'It was introduced here by General Eaton, our Consul at Tunis, who procured a small flock from the Bey and shipped them to Pennsylvania where they came under the care of Judge Peters of Belmcmt, near Philadelphia, The
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