VARIETIES OF SHEEP AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS, 



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X. Black-faced Highland or Scotch Sheep. 



This breed is celebrated for its great hardiness and for its power of 

 withstanding cold and living on scanty food even when the ground is cov- 

 ered with snow, as well as for its superior mutton. It is the oldest breed 

 known in Scotland. The face is black; the muzzle thick; the horns of 

 the rams massive and spirally curved; eyes bright and wild; the body 

 square and compact. They herd well together, are docile and easily 

 handled. When fat, the carcass will weigh from sixty to seventy pounds, 

 and yields mutton of exceedingly fine flavor. The ewes are excellent and 

 careful mothers, and for these reasons we have given them a place in this 



LINCOUX K.\M. CIBSONS 



Grand Champion Rar 



. BY liuYAL DUKE, 

 of his Breed. 



work; in some mountain regions of America, this and the Welsh Moun- 

 tain breed may come to be of value. The fleece of the White-faced breed 

 will weigh about three pounds, but is adapted only to the manufacture of 

 coarser fabrics, as caipets, blankets and rugs. 



XI. Hampshire-Downs. 



The Hampshire-Downs are a mixed breed, originating by crossing the 

 South-Down on the native breed of Hampshire, followed later by the 

 Cotswold. During this infusion of improved blood, they have retained 

 ilieir original hardy constitutions in a remarkable degree. Before the 

 -7ar thev were much esteemed in the South, as being larger and fully as 



