. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Very Fine Specimen of a Dorset Ram breed, which is gaining favor so rapidly inthis country, is confined in England to the hillcountry of Dorsetshire. THE SHEEP I8l. Welsh Ewes The Exiiioor s/ircp, found cm theheights of Exmoor, shows more ofthe mountain type. Like the Dorset,this breed has horns, which 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
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Very Fine Specimen of a Dorset Ram breed, which is gaining favor so rapidly inthis country, is confined in England to the hillcountry of Dorsetshire. THE SHEEP I8l. Welsh Ewes The Exiiioor s/ircp, found cm theheights of Exmoor, shows more ofthe mountain type. Like the Dorset,this breed has horns, which 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 hamle
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