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imported Cotswold rams. The large area occupied, exceed- 

 ing 6,000 acres, is hilly, and the pastures are covered with 

 fruit trees, suggesting sheep as the stock most appropriate 

 to be kept. The old flock of fine wools was not profitable, 

 the culls being almost worthless for mutton, upon which 

 the rich beet pulp was practically thrown away in an at- 

 tempt to fatten them. The experiment was successful above 

 expectation. The cross-breeds were thrifty, early attaining 

 maturity, becoming fat at ten or twelve months old. After 

 weaning, the lambs are fed upon beet pulp, have a little 

 rape-seed cake, and oats, until a supply of mown clover is 

 attainable, and later are pushed forward with mangolds. 

 With such a course of feeding, they weigh 140 pounds or 

 more at 12 or 14 months, and have brought at market an 

 equivalent of 7 cents per pound, live weight, or $10 per 

 head. After the first cross, it has been found best to breed 

 in-and-in by selection from the same flock. A second flock 

 was constituted with reference to very large size and great 

 hardiness, by selecting large native ewes from the Car- 

 pathian Mountains (Zackels), and also Merinos of unusual 

 size, and coupling with rams of any breed having requisite 

 size and constitution. The offspring of these selected sheep 

 were paired with Cotswold males from England, and their 

 progeny inbred without further crossing. The result is the 

 Keltschan sheep exhibited by the sugar company a large 

 animal, an average wether weighing fully 170 pounds at 14 

 months, and 225 at 18. 



" This company has also a Southdown flock, and a cross- 

 breed, or a Southdown-Merino flock, the latter well adapted 

 to medium lands, but surpassed by the Cotswold- Merinos 

 ior rich lands, and b) the heavy Keltschan sheep for profit 

 as pulp- eaters and flesh- makers. The weight of fleeces of 

 the Cotswold cross is fully four pounds, and of the others 

 three pounds." 



