. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. he 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 Tunisian Mountain sheep. Some of them were subsequentlydistributed by Colonel Pickering, of Massachusetts, among the farmers of Pennsylvania, andtheir mixed descendants were highly prized as proUfic and good nursers, coming early tomaturity, attaining large weight of superior quali
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. he 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 Tunisian Mountain sheep. Some of them were subsequentlydistributed by Colonel Pickering, of Massachusetts, among the farmers of Pennsylvania, andtheir mixed descendants were highly prized as proUfic and good nursers, 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 country became blended withAmerican flocks, and are now scarcely known. A few other importations have since beenmade, but have proved of little value for American cultivation. 296 THE AMERICAN FARMER. Tho accompanying representation was taken from specimens of this breed imported fromKaramania, in Asiatic Tuikey, by W. W. Clieuery of Highland Stock Farm, Belmont, Massa-chusetts. It is stated on the best authority that the fat tailed sheep of the Kirghis, afterbeing bred for a few generations in Russia, will lose this peculiar characteristic that hadbefore distinguished them.
Size: 2025px × 1234px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectagriculture, bookyear
