. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 43S SHEEP conceded that the breed of to-day is much improved over the old type, this improvement having been largely secured by using Leicester rams on Cotswold ewes. So indiscriminately were they used between 1780 and 1820 that we are told not a Cots- wold flock was spared. The Leicester blood reduced the size and constitution, but improved the symmetry, producing better bodies, finer wool, more quality, and earlier-maturing sheep. During the last century the families of Smith of Bibury, Hewer. Fig. 205. Houlton's 945 — 39250, an imported Cotswo
. Types and breeds of farm animals . Livestock. 43S SHEEP conceded that the breed of to-day is much improved over the old type, this improvement having been largely secured by using Leicester rams on Cotswold ewes. So indiscriminately were they used between 1780 and 1820 that we are told not a Cots- wold flock was spared. The Leicester blood reduced the size and constitution, but improved the symmetry, producing better bodies, finer wool, more quality, and earlier-maturing sheep. During the last century the families of Smith of Bibury, Hewer. Fig. 205. Houlton's 945 — 39250, an imported Cotswold yearling ram, owned by the Ohio State University. This ram is in thin flesh with about five months of fleece. Photograph by the author of North Leach, Lane, and Game materially improved the breed by judicious selection and some in-and-in breeding. On the dis- persion of the Hewer flock various breeders purchased and established flocks which are numbered among the important ones of to-day in England. The introduction of Cotswold sheep to the United States probably first occurred in 1832, when Mr. C. Dunn, who lived near Albany, New York, imported a ram. In 1834 Isaac May- nard of Coshocton County, Ohio, brought the first Cotswolds. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston ; New York : Ginn
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