MODERN SHEEP I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



and judgment, and was the owner of a flock that during the process 

 of improvement carried off many high honors in the show ring, 

 and to his effort is largely due its rapid ascendancy from the 

 mediocre to the now almost ideal. He was extremely desirous of 



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obtaining what we now worship a desirable spring of the rib. 

 Then, to his endeavors, we owe the elimination of the peakedness 

 of certain points of the Morfe Common, and the establishment of 

 the oblique shoulder and square rump. Although he did all this 

 naturally, it was left to our more modern breeders to put the 



