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MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



prominent French flock was made by Mr. A. P. Howard, of Ohio, 

 for a company of breeders of that state; and again in 1881 a small 

 importation was made by practically the same parties, from another 

 private French flock. In 1899 and the three following years sev- 

 'eral importations from both French and German flocks were 

 made by D wight Lincoln, of Ohio, (the secretary of the Associa- 

 tion) ; F. W. Harding, of Wisconsin, and others. George Truesdell, 

 of Washington, D. C., also made a large importation of choice 

 French and German sheep in 1902. The acquisition of these latest 





Two-hundred-pound Yearling Ramhouillet Ram Baldwin Sheep & Land Co. Type. 

 Photo Taken Soon After Shearing. 



importations is too recent to be able to determine their value to 

 the breed. 



The importations, however, which gave the greatest results 

 to American Rambouillets, and which were most instrumental 

 in starting them on the highway to popular favor were those made 

 from the flock of Baron von Homeyer, of Prussia. This Ger- 

 man flock had been established in 1862, by the purchase of 150 

 ewes and seven rams of the government flock and four prominent 

 French flocks, and from that time until the death of Baron von 

 Homeyer in 1898, the flock was maintained and improved along 



