Sheep Husbandky. 187 



SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



BY JOHN H. MEAD, OF WEST RUTLAND. 



In speaking on this subject, 1 am fully satistied that it is 

 one the importance of which is second to none in our 

 glorious old State of Vermont. For I believe that upon 

 her mountain sides shall ever, as long as time lasts with 

 man, be found the best and most beautiful sheep in the 

 world ; and in the future, as in the past, men from every 

 quarter of the globe will seek here for the best sheep in 

 the world. For with a connnon interest as a breeder my- 

 self, to encourage breeders of sheep to look after their 

 interest more closely, and to breed better, to encourage 

 men to keep better sheep, to encourage young men to em- 

 bark in the interest of sheep husbandry, and to encourage 

 poor men to look after so small an interest as one sheep 

 even, are given my feeble efforts in this paper. 



In the spirit of the injunction " Do unto others as you 

 would that they should do unto you," I ask your kind 

 attention to a few simple facts, stated in the most simple 

 manner. 



The familiar animal', dignified by the naturalist by the 

 name avis ories, or our domestic sheep, will be the sub- 

 ject of these remarks. There is considerable resemblance 



