ILLUSTRATIONS. 



1. How to make a sheep blanket 3& 



2. Exterior view of modem sheep barn 72 



3. Interior view of modern sheep barn 74 



4. Ground plan of modern sheep barn 76 



5. Hurdle No. 1 85 



. Hurdle No. 2 86 



7. Clamps used in castrating 116 



8. Diagram of dipping plant 132 



9. Diagram of dipping plant 134 



10. Sheep shorn the long way 138 



11. Fleams used in bleeding sheep 195 



12. Partially dissected sheep 200 



13. Lamb dressed with long backsets 204 



14. Lamb dressed with short backsets 209 



15. Grade yearling wether 218 



16. Mutton carcass 225 



17. Saddle and legs of mutton : 226 



18. Dressed yearling wether 229 



19. Lamb dressed with short backsets front view 231 



PLATES. 



I. A Typical English Scene Frontispiece 



II. Oxford Ram 23 



III. Group of Lincolns 51 



IV. Rambouillet Ram "Kaiser" 56 



V. Hampshires 58 



VI. Group of American Merinos , 67 



VII. Cheviot Ram 81 



Till. Blackface Highland Ram 93 



IX. Group of Dorsets 103 



X. Shropshire Ram Ill 



XI. Romney Marsh Ram 121 



XII. Dorset Ram 145 



XIII. Shropshire Lambs 150 



XIV. Southdown Ram 162 



XV. Cotswolds 171 



XVI. Flock of Suffolks 179 



XVII. Delaine Ram "Sensation 1 T . .. 189 



