PREFACE. 



The cordial reception that "Fitting Sheep for Show Ring and 

 Market" met at the hands of some of the world's greatest flock- 

 masters, shepherds, the agricultural press and sheep breeders gen- 

 erally, was the prime factor inspiring the writing of this work. 

 A wide acquaintance with prominent sheep breeders, fanciers and 

 shepherds of several countries and many years spent in practical 

 pastoral pursuits and in the pastoral journalistic field, has put 

 (he writer in possession of information which it is hoped will 

 prove of inteiest and value to those into whose hands this volume 

 may fall. 



The author takes great pleasure in acknowledging the assist- 

 ance rendered him by those gentlemen whose names are mentioned 

 from time to time in the pages of this work, without which it 

 never could have appeared in anything like the complete state 

 in which it is presented. 



In selecting the illustrations for this work it has been the 

 aim of the writer to use only first class photographs, as drawings 

 of animals are always more or less misleading and consequently 

 disappointing. 



"SHEPHERD BOY/' 



