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the last Wednesday in July for 85 guineas to Mr. T. S. Cooper 

 to go to America. He was there exhibited at the Philadelphia 

 International Exhibition, and gained every honour possible 

 against all breeds, being thus commented upon by the judges : 

 " For excellence in quality, uniformity of symmetry, great con- 

 stitutional development, and for being a very superior specimen 

 of the breed to which it belongs." Also in 1877 at the centen- 

 nial meeting of the Bath and West of England Society, a two- 

 shear ram of this breed named Campsfield was pronounced by 

 the judges as the best ram of any breed in the yard. 



Mr. C. Hobbs adds : As time moves on this breed of sheep 

 continues to gain in popularity, and are still making their way 

 into new districts. They have become much more uniform in 

 character, and as producers of good quality and heavy weight 

 of mutton and wool at an early age are now difficult to equal. 

 Many are the enterprising men throughout the country who, in 

 addition to producing large numbers of these sheep for the 

 butcher, sell annually vastly increased numbers of shearling 

 rams and ram lambs, which are distributed not only in the 

 United Kingdom, but to France, Portugal, Eussia, Belgium, 

 Holland, G-ermany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Canada, United 

 States of America, South America, Australia, South Africa, &c. 



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