FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 14:1 



is to avoid every highly pampered flock as tainted by 

 fraud / and can he who attempts a fraud in one par- 

 ticular be trusted in others ? are his pedigrees of sheep 

 of any value \ 



While I intend to be distinctly understood as not 

 including early shearing and summer sheltering, if 

 avowed, among frauds, I again call attention to the 

 fact that they can be and are made potent auxiliaries 

 by those who pamper for dishonest purposes., and 

 therefore they have the odor of bad association on 

 them. Is this not an additional reason for abandoning 

 them ? Is it not the safest, fairest, and best course, on 

 the whole, to abandon all unnecessary* and over arti 

 ficial, and for all legitimate objects, wholly profitless 

 systems in the management of our sheep ? These re- 

 marks imply no objection to good keep in summer 

 and winter, and to good winter shelter; and though a 

 cavil might be raised as to where the demarcation line 

 is to be drawn between good keep and pamperingj 

 every flock master, possessing common sense, will fully 

 understand the distinction without any explanations. 



Breeding. 



The art of breeding is the art of selecting and 

 coupling together those males and females which are 

 best adapted to produce an improved and uniform off- 



* There are places, undoubtedly, where it may be more prudent to 

 shut up sheep nights to protect them from dogs. Where this is im- 

 mediately stated to you by a gentleman like William Chamberlain, in 

 regard to his costly imported sheep, you feel that there is a necessity 

 for it ; and if he frankly adds that he prefers thus to preserve the color 

 of his sheep, according to the German system to which they have 

 ever bsen used, you are fully satisfied with his motives. 



