THE CHEVIOT 



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The introduction of the Cheviot to the United States first 

 occurred in 1838 by Robert Youngs of Delhi, Delaware County, 

 New York. They had some time previously been imported into 

 Canada by a Mr. Pope of Cookshire, Quebec. In 1842 George 

 Lough and a Mr. Davidson of Delaware County, New York, 

 made importations. In 1845 T. J. Carmichael imported three 

 rams and six ewes to Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Cheviots 

 were introduced into Pennsylvania in 1889 by T. M. Patterson, 

 into Illinois in 1888 by E. Pumphrey, and into Indiana in 1891 

 by H. H. Keim. In re- 

 cent years quite a num- 

 ber of fine Cheviots have 

 been imported into the 

 United States. 



Characteristics of the 

 Cheviot. The head is 

 usually hornless and is 

 covered with hard, white, 

 short hair to behind the 

 ear and around the jaw. 

 The lips and nostrils 

 should be black, though 

 frequently they are also 

 mottled flesh-color and 

 black. The nose should 



be broad, with a tendency to a Roman curve. The head is short and 

 broad between the prominent, large eyes. The ears are white and 

 free from wool and are thinner and longer than the Shropshire ear. 

 The Cheviot shoulder is lighter than with lowland breeds, and the 

 body lacks the breadth of the Shropshire and the Southdown. The 

 withers incline to be high and sharp, the back is none too level, 

 and the depth of body is only moderate. The bone is of fine 

 quality and strong, as is quite manifest in the clean white legs. 

 The skin is unusually pink and rich in color. The fleece covers 

 the body and extends up the neck to behind the ears, forming a 

 sort of collar and covering the legs to knees and hocks. The 

 fleece is of the middle-wool class, neither fine nor coarse, of staple 

 grading quarter-blood combing, and in the better flocks even 



FIG. 281. Cheviot rams, the first-prize pen at the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England Show, 

 1900. Owned and exhibited by John Elliott, 

 Under Hindhope, Jedburgh, Scotland. From 

 photograph by the author 



