164 BRITISH SHEEP AND SHEPHERDING. 



keep ; but after a year, when they have built up their constitutions, 

 the food is not necessarily so choicely selected. 



The lines of selection, and the good treatment to which this 

 breed has been long subjected, make it a fast feeder, whether as 

 a lamb or up to maturity and maturity in this breed comes 

 very early. Old terms of nomenclature which were used in the 

 order of lamb, teg and wether, the latter after being shown as a two- 

 tooth sheep, are very frequently squeezed into as short a period as 

 nine months a veritable triumph in sheep breeding. 



