COMMUNICATIONS. 89 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



ON LONG WOO LED SHEEP 



BY JOHN P. ROE, MUSKEGO. 



Dear Sir : — Yours of the lltli ult. was duly received ; and 

 in answer to your inquiries I would state, that the coarse wooled 

 Sheep exhibited by me at the late State Fair, are not "Leices- 

 ters," but " Cotswolds," which, whether acknowledged as such, 

 or not, by the collective wisdom of your Executive Committee, 

 are a perfectly distinct breed from the Leicesters ; which is evi- 

 dent even to a superficial observer in the shape of the head, 

 different character of the fleece, heavier bone, more muscle 

 (which last are very evident to the butcher and consumer), as 

 well as a difference in the whole bearing and formation of the 

 animal. 



The two year old Buck I exhibited, was bred by Mr. Cother, 

 of Oxfordshire, England, who, as a breeder of Cotswolds, has a 

 reputation probably second to none in the kingdom, though the 

 admirers of Mr. Hewer's Sheep claim that, they are superior to 

 Cother's. At the Northampton Fair, held Sept. 19th 1853, at 

 which 1 purchased his Buck, Mr. C. exhibited three Cotswold 

 Ewes, which weighed in the aggregate more than eleven hun- 

 dred pounds, and were not only a proof of the aptitude of 

 the Cotswold to carry fat, but from their beautiful symmetrical 

 shape, and the evenness of the fat over the whole carcass, they 

 were considered by competent judges as evidence of superior, 

 scientific breeding. This Buck was hurt in the month of March 

 last, the inflamation from which, caused so violent an internal 

 fever, that the whole fleece slipped completely off, leaving his 



