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SHEEP DISEASES. 



established them on a farm near Paris, called 

 Rambouillet, progenitors of the breed of that 



name. 



MUSIMON OF EUROPE. 



Courtesy American Sheep Breeder. 



During the first quarter of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury Merinos were introduced into the United 

 States. In 1801, the wool industry, that has made 

 that state the leader of fine-wool sheep, was 

 started in Ohio. The same year a number of Ram- 

 bouillets were sent to New York by Robert Living- 

 stone, our minister to France. In 1802, General 



