SECTION LV. SHEEP 



LONG before cotton was known, men and women wore 

 garments made of wool. The sheep still furnishes a large 

 part of our clothing. This animal is as useful for its flesh, 

 called mutton, as for its wool. 



Sheep are more easily kept than almost any other ani- 



FIG. 196. DORSET SHEEP 



mal. They live chiefly on coarse feed that would other- 

 wise be wasted and eat weeds which horses, cattle, and hogs 

 will not touch. Thus they help to keep the farm clean 

 and neat and improve the land on which they pasture. 

 This explains the true proverb that "The hoof of the sheep 



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