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"My mans the very best he has shows, and tells her how fine 

 und tender they be, alretty the finest of the market, he says. 



"Id vas a joke then he says by my mans, und a good joke it 

 vas, too, for. she say, quiet like, 'Vas dot a Persian lam's leg?' 

 Und she vas mad when my mans he smile and say, 'Dis ain't no fur- 

 rier's, ma'am,' for she blush and say real loud, "If I vas new by 

 the marketing business alretty, I know dot Persian lamb vos the 

 most expensive, und it vas the very best my husband he vants/ 3 ' 



THE "CORRIEDALE" SHEEP. 



The Corriedale sheep is a New Zealand product and it is con- 

 sidered by many New Zealanders to be as near an ideal dual-pur- 

 pose sheep as can be raised, combining a well-proportioned carcass 



Yearling Corriedale Rams. 



and a fleece of splendid quality. The name ^Corriedale" originates 

 from the district in which it was first raised. The demand for 

 an ideal sheep for export-freezing purposes, that would at the 

 same time produce a fleece that would be more than ordinarily 

 profitable, induced the sheep breeders of New Zealand to carry 

 out many experiments with several of the English breeds and the 

 Merinos. The Corriedale was originally the product of a Lincoln, 

 Eomney Marsh or English Leicester ram mated with a fine combing 

 Merino ewe. It is really the offspring of a half-breed inbred. In 

 1903 the council of the New Zealand Sheep Breeders' Associa- 

 tion recognized the Corriedale as a distinct breed of sheep. A 

 friend of the author's, Mr. David Evans, a well-known New Zealand 

 shepherd, says in regard to this breed: "Mr. James Little and 

 Mr. John Stringfellow, both of Canterbury, in the South Island, 

 had a clear line of ancestry in their flocks for over twenty years, 

 both breeding on the same line, from a Lincoln foundation, while 

 another breeder in the colony, Mr. Ensor, started about the same 



