1 72 MODERN SHEEP I BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the world-famed millionaire journalist, 

 before his appointment as ambassador to Great Britain, kept a 

 nice flock of Hampshires, which were well cared for by a pro- 

 fessional English shepherd. 



Millionaire Vanderbilt has a choice flock of Southdowns on 

 his famous "Biltmore" estate. 



Canada, as well as the United States, has her millionaire 

 sheep fanciers. A flock of Southdowns, many of them selections 

 from the king of England's famous "Sandringham" flock, are 

 commissioned to keep the golf links of Sir George Drummond's 

 beautiful "Huntlywood" estate in order. This flock numbers 

 some 300 head. 



We could go still further, but enough has been said to show 

 what universal interest is being taken in. the "golden hoof/' not 

 only as a money maker, but as an aid in the building of charming 

 landscapes, and pleasing the eye of the rich in particular, and the 

 masses generally. It may not be out of place to mention here that 

 many ladies are numbered among those who take keen interest 

 and delight in raising pure-bred .sheep special mention may be 

 made of Miss Alice de Rothschild, a relative of Baron Rothschild. 



SHEEP FARMING IN ENGLAND. 



Nowhere in the world are sheep raised on such intensive 

 methods or to such a high state of perfection as in England, espe- 

 cially is this true of the mutton breeds. There are a great many 

 reasons for this, the foremost among them being the Englishman's 

 aim to breed a class of sheep that is suitable to his district. It 

 may be said with a good deal of truth that environment and food 

 supply are the father of the different breeds of British sheep. 

 Great Britain has considerably less than one-half the population of 

 the United States, and territory only about equal to Michigan, yet 

 she produces almost half as much wool as the United States. The 

 average American has but a faint idea of the sheep industry of 

 Great Britain. He labors under the impression that English sheep 

 farms are small, whereas in most cases they are much larger than 

 the average farm of the eastern part of this country. A flock of 

 sheep of 200 in our eastern states is considered a rather large one, 

 In England a flock of pure-bred sheep of that size is not considered 

 a large one. There are no end of flocks in that country totaling 

 well up toward a thousand head of ewes, and I have a Hampshire 

 flock in mind that runs up to nearly three thousand head. The 

 Hampshire flocks almost without exception run up into the hun- 

 dreds, and, in some cases, the thousands. It will take us a long 

 while to anything like reach the standard of the English breeders ; 

 in fact, we can never do it, except in certain favored sections, say 

 Oregon, and localities with a similar climate. Climate is one of 



