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THE RAMBOUILLET 



Most of the privately owned flocks of France were founded on 

 stock bred at Rambouillet, and probably all of them secured animals 

 from that source. These were either sold or distributed as gifts for 

 the purpose of encouraging the keeping of improved sheep. During 

 the rule of Napoleon, and immediately afterwards, a great many 

 Spanish Merinos were driven into France and blood from this 



FIG. 138. Rambouillet ram, B-type; a prize-winner bred by F. S. King Bros. Co., 

 Laramie, Wyoming. The heavy folds on the neck and the wrinkles on the body back of 

 the forelegs, on the thighs and at the dock indicate that this sheep is a B-type. 



source may have been commingled with that received from the gov- 

 ernment farm. 



The Germans got their .foundation stock from the privately 

 owned flocks of France, but they called it Rambouillet just as the 

 French breeders had done. 



Importations to the United States. Rambouillets were 

 brought to the United States in ] 840, but at that time the American 



