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SHEEP DISEASES. 



lias flourished and has produced untold wealth for 

 the owners. While it is a far cry from the times 

 of Abel and Abraham, and the shepherds with 

 their little flocks on the Chaldean hills in Biblical 

 story, to the present day of gigantic sheep ranches 

 of Australia, Argentine and the United States, the 

 habits of this docile animal have remained prac- 

 tically the same as they were at the dawn of civil- 

 ization. 



MERIXO, TYPE C Champion Ram. 



In round numbers, there are about six hundred 

 million sheep in the world, divided as follows : 

 60,000,000 head in North America, the United 



States, 

 named. 



Mexico and Canada leading in order 



