Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . bing with a smaller lot of better wool, their this years clip sold fur 29 ?:ents per pound, while my heavier Merino fleeces sold for 42 cents per30und. They attracted no notice, and might at any time have beenwught of their owner for the price of common sheep of the same weight;[ believe the flock was broken up and sold to butchers and others thisspring, after shearing. They were certainly inferior to the description of;he
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . bing with a smaller lot of better wool, their this years clip sold fur 29 ?:ents per pound, while my heavier Merino fleeces sold for 42 cents per30und. They attracted no notice, and might at any time have beenwught of their owner for the price of common sheep of the same weight;[ believe the flock was broken up and sold to butchers and others thisspring, after shearing. They were certainly inferior to the description of;he breed by Sir John Sinclair, even in 1792, quoted by Mr. Youatt,|| and ; * With every breed previously described, I have had ample personal experience. I have merely seP3potswold flocks. t Q. v.,p. 99. % Q. v., p. 340. || Q. v., pp. 985, 28e. idO SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. They might had all the defects attiihuted to the oiicrinal stock by Cully.*not. liowever, have been favorable specimens of thebreed. On the steep, storm-lashed Cheviot Hills, in the extreme North of , this breed first attracted notice for tlit-ir irroat hardiness in resisting. i CHEVIOT EWE. cold and feeding on coarse lieathery herbage. A ctoss with the Leices-ter, pretty generally resorted to, constitutes the imjnoved variety. Thecharacteristics of the Leicester are quite evident in the portrait of theCheviot Ewe, above, copied from Mr. Youatt. n Professor Low thus speaks of the result of this cross : T The Cheviot breed amalgamates with the Leicester, and a system of breeding has beenextensively introduced for producing the first cross of this descent. The rams employed areo( the pure Leicester breed, and the progeny is superior in size, weight of wool, and tenden-cy to tiitten, to the native Cheviot. . The benefit, however, may be said to end with thefirst cross, and the progeny of this mixed descent is greatly inferior to the pure Leice8ter|rin fonn and fattening properties, and to the pure Chev
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