Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ight pounds per fleece ; some American fleeces have been sheared weigh-ing eighteen pounds. The two illustrations of Cotswold ewes will showthe appearance of this favorite long-wooled breed as they appear undergood keeping, before shearing time. Cotswolds in the West and South.—Their many good qualities, especi-ally their ha
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ight pounds per fleece ; some American fleeces have been sheared weigh-ing eighteen pounds. The two illustrations of Cotswold ewes will showthe appearance of this favorite long-wooled breed as they appear undergood keeping, before shearing time. Cotswolds in the West and South.—Their many good qualities, especi-ally their hardiness, adaptation to the rolling prairies of the West andthe hill regions of the South, have made them general favorites withlong-wool breeders. They also cross kindly with other breeds, includingthe South-Downs; the ewes are prolific, and the flesh of the lambs and 1018 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. yearlings most excellent. Like all the long-wonled breeds, they accumu-late much fat with age. Another point in their favor is that the fleecesare not gummy, and do not shrink, as do the Merinos. A pound of Cots-Mold wool, as it is taken from the sheep, will produce as much cleanscoured wool as two and a half pounds of gummy Merino wool. South. of the Ohio river, Coiswolds are often reported as wintering with little orno feeding, except grazing, unless during more than ordinarily severewinters. East and AVest of the Mississippi, in the latitude of St. Louisand south of it, the same is true, and the statement will hold good withall the more hardy breeds. Yet, even in these genial climates, allsheep must be sheltered from storms, and it is by no means good policy VARIETIES OF SHEEP AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 1019 to allow them to shift entirely for themselves in the matter of food. Toshow accurately the form of this admirable breed, we give an il-lustration of an ewe, and also of a buck, showing their appearance aftershearing. In the hill region of Virginia,
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