No. 6. 



Aarcn Clement' s Leicester Buck. 



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PORTRAIT OF THE LEICESTER BUCK, "LAMBERT," 

 The property of Aaron Clement, Esq., of Philadelphia. 



From the American Farmer. 



Lameert was bred by Dr. Huddleson, of Delaware county, Pa., — is three years old, and 

 weighed in Marcli last, wJien only in good keeping condition, 250 lbs. He produced at 

 last shearing 10^ lbs. of wool of superior quality and length of staple. His grand sire 

 was imported by Mr. James Hickman, of Delaware county, and his dam was from the 

 celebrated flock of the late John Barney, of the State of Delaware, whose sheep were so 

 highly celebrated for their fine mutton m the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets. 



The writers on sheep, say that the Leicester should have a hornless head, long, small, 

 tapering towards the muzzle; eyes prominent, with a quiet expression; ears thin, rather 

 lone-, directed backwards; neck full and broad at its base, gradually tapering towards the 

 head, particularly bare at the junction with the head; the neck seeming to project straight 

 from the chest, so that there is, with the slightest possible deviation, one continued hori- 

 zontal line from the rump to the pole. The breast broad and full; shoulders broad and 

 round, no uneven or angular forn)ation, no rising of the withers, no hollow behind the 

 situation of these bones. The arm fieshy throughout, even down to the knee. The bones 

 of the leg small, standing wide apart, no looseness of skin about them, and comparatively 

 bare of Vvool. The chest and barrel deep and round; the ribs forming a considerable arch 

 from the spine; the barrel ribbed well home; the carcase gradually diminishing in width 

 towards the rump; thequaiters long and full; the legs of a moderate length; the pelt 

 moderately thin, soft and elastic, covered with a good quantity of white wool, not so long 

 as in some breeds, but considerably finer. The principal recommendations of this breed 

 are its beauty and its fulness of ibrm; in the same apparent dimensions greater weight 

 than any other sheep; an early maturity and a propensity to fatten, equalled by no other 

 breed ; a diminution in the proportion of oflal, and the return of most money for the quan- 

 tity of food consumed. 



