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MODERN SHEEP : BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



time kept two sheep to every three acres ; "in round figures, 1,200,- 

 000 will be shorn exclusive of lambs, which must not be considered 

 stock requiring herbage at that time." 



As has been intimated, Lincolns have realized very large 

 prices, especially during the past year or two. Only recently Mr. 

 Henry Budding of Riby Grove fame, sold a single ram, which went 

 to Buenos Ayres, for 1,522 10s, the highest previous price for a 

 ram of this kind being 1,000. Not long ago the sale of the Nocton 

 Heath Lincoln flock of Messrs. Wright, Lincoln (Eng.), to Mr. 



Record-price Lincoln Ram, "Royal Champion," bred by Mr. H. Dudding, and 

 Sold for $7,250. 



Miller, of Argentina, for the sum of 42,000, averaging 80 per 

 head, including rams, ewes, and lambs, was reported. This sale 

 is a record for British-bred sheep. The highest price ever realized 

 in America for a ram was $8,000, which was paid for a Vermont 

 Merino that went to Australia over twenty years ago. Not only 

 are Lincolns held in very high esteem at present, but, considering 

 that a ram of the breed was rented in England at the high figure of 

 $3,150 in the early sixties, it would seem that they have long 

 been famous so far as big prices are concerned. The Lincoln has 

 been very much sought during the past few years by breeders in 

 the Argentine Republic, for crossing purposes, and very large 

 prices have been paid for rams of the breed there. A short time 

 since, the Lincoln was most grossly libelled by a publication in 

 South America by charging that it was more susceptible to pluero- 



