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ELEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



FIG. 184. Dorset-horn ram 



Nearly 12,000 ewes in England in a year raised an average 

 of 168 lambs for each hundred ewes. They are especially 

 adapted to good lands and good pastures, and are very 

 popular in the East and 

 Middle West. On the 

 range they are not so 

 hardy as the Merino 

 breeds. Next to the Me- 

 rinos, they are the most 

 numerous breed in 

 America. 



Southdowns are an- 

 other popular mutton 

 breed. They have gray- 

 ish brown or reddish brown legs and faces and are 

 smaller than the Shropshires. Their wool is finer and 

 more valuable, but they are less prolific. Other breeds 



of the same general class 

 that are raised in America 

 are the Oxford Down and 

 the Hampshire Down. 



The Horned Dorset has 

 attracted considerable at- 

 tention in sections where 

 winter lambs are produced, 

 as it is claimed that a 

 large proportion of its 

 lambs will be early enough 

 for the winter market. The wool is not of the best 

 quality. 



Cotswold is the only coarse-wooled breed that has 



FIG. 185. Cotswold ewe 



