American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . broad-tailed sheep were brought into this countryabout seventy years since, by Commodore Barron and Judge Peters, and bred with the nativeflocks. They were called the Timisian Mountain sheep. Some of them were subsequentlydistributed by Colonel Pickering, of Massachusetts, among the farmers of Pennsylvania, andtheir mixed descendants were highly prized as prolific and good nui-sers, coming early tomaturity, attaining large weight of superior quality of carcass, and yielding a he
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . broad-tailed sheep were brought into this countryabout seventy years since, by Commodore Barron and Judge Peters, and bred with the nativeflocks. They were called the Timisian Mountain sheep. Some of them were subsequentlydistributed by Colonel Pickering, of Massachusetts, among the farmers of Pennsylvania, andtheir mixed descendants were highly prized as prolific and good nui-sers, coming early tomaturity, attaining large weight of superior quality of carcass, and yielding a heavy fleece ofexcellent wool. The lambs were dropped white, red, tawny, bluish, or black; but all except-ing the black grew white as they approached maturity, retaining some spots of the originalcolor on the cheeks and legs, and sometimes having the entire head tawny or black. Thefew which descended from those originally imported into this coimtry became blended withAmerican flocks, and are now scarcely known. A few other importations have since been-made, but have proved of little value for American cultivation. 1123 THE AMERICAN FARMER. The accoinpan3-ing representation was taken from specimens of tliis breed imported fromKaramania. in Asiatic Turice}, by W. W. Chenery of Highland Stock Farm, Belmont. Jlassa-chusetts. It is stated on the best authority that the fat tailed sheep of the Kirghis, afterbeino- bred for a few generations in Russia, will lose this peculiar characteristic that hadbefore distinguished them.
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