MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



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12, to home buyers, If the foreigner wants the best he must 

 pay the highest price. 



"I enclose you a good photograph of a typical Suffolk ram 

 which I trust will be appropriate for your forthcoming work on 

 sheep. 



"I am perfectly certain that Suffolks are the best mutton sheep 

 in England and they shear a fair clip of wool,, that from my ewe 

 hoggets this year averaged twelve shillings ($3) per head." 



In 1902 a Suffolk ewe, in England, in the short space of 12y 2 

 months gave her owner no less than eight healthy lambs. On 

 February 22, 1903, she dropped two ram lambs; August 31, 1903, 

 two ram lambs and one ewe lamb; March 9, 1904, two ram lambs 

 and one ewe lamb. 



Suffolk Wethers. 



Of this most worthy breed of sheep, Mr. Ernest Prentice, the 

 Secretary of the English Suffolk Sheep Society, says: "The 

 'genesis' "of the breed of Suffolk sheep is clear and indisputable. 



"Early in the present century a breed of Suffolk sheep ex- 

 isted, which had .been founded by crossing the original horned 

 Norfolk ewes with improved Southdown rams. The mingling of 

 the form and fattening properties of the Southdown with the 

 hardy, pure-blooded, and highly-bred Norfolk resulted in a valuable 

 type of animal. In the progeny, the purer blood of the Norfolks 

 asserted itself in the characteristic black faces and legs, and the ob- 

 jectionable feature the horns was eliminated by selection in the 

 course of a few years. 



"By the middle of the century these Southdown-Norfolks were 



