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 . 1008 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK §1 ORIGIX, ANATOMY AND POINTS OF SHEEP. 1009 •egions of the South are eminently suited for sheep husbandry, espe-cially for the mutton and long-wooled breeds. There are found the es-sentials of a genial climate, plenty of range, pure water, sweet grasses,and a soil na
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 . 1008 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK §1 ORIGIX, ANATOMY AND POINTS OF SHEEP. 1009 •egions of the South are eminently suited for sheep husbandry, espe-cially for the mutton and long-wooled breeds. There are found the es-sentials of a genial climate, plenty of range, pure water, sweet grasses,and a soil natural to sheep. There is only a single drawback—the num-ber of dogs that are allowed to wander at will to decimate flocks. Ifthe dogs were abated, the hill regions of the South would soon prove asvaluable for sheep as for fruit and for general agriculture. XI. Points of Excellence of the Principal Breeds. The standards of excellence, now generally adopted at the St. Louisfair, at the Illinois State fair, and at many other prominent Western fairs,and also at the great exhibition of live stock at the Chicago fair for 1881,may be taken as being as near perfect as possible, and will rule in allpoints except, perhaps, in the weight of the carcass. In the East, andin some portions of the hill region South, the weight of ca
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