THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG. 



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powerful races, possessing the same general characteristics, 

 are to be found in almost every country excepting our own, 

 where the fine-wooled breeds of sheep have been extensively- 

 introduced. "With a commerce extending to all the mari- 

 time nations of the world, it is singular that so little pains 

 have been taken to introduce them. 



THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG. The following cut presents 

 an accurate portrait of an animal of this breed, imported by 

 Mr. B. Gates, of Gap Grove, Lee county, Illinois. It is taken 

 from The Farmer's Library : 



DKOVER S DOG. 



The Drover's Dog, or English Sheep Dog, or Butcher's 

 Dog for by all these different names is he known is thus 

 described by Mr. Theodore C. Peters, of Darien, New York, 

 in third volume of the American Agriculturist, 1 844 : 



" I purchased a bitch of the tailless species, known as the 

 English drover _dog, in Smithfield market, some two years 

 ago. That species is much used upon the downs, and is a 

 larger and fleeter dog than the Colley. We raised two litters 

 from her, got by Jack, [a Colley,] and I think the cross will 



