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therein during the three seasons preceding the application for re- 

 gistration, shall have been registered rams " ; also, " that no ram or 

 ewe, or ram lamb or ewe lamb, bred by a non-member shall be 

 eligible for registration unless it be proved to the satisfaction of 

 the council that its sire was a registered sheep and its dam by a 

 registered sire." 



THE DEVON LONGWOOL SHEEP. The South Devon Longwool 

 is a local Breed which was first brought into prominence in this 

 country by the Bath and West of England Society offering special 

 prizes for the breed at the Taunton Show in 1870. The establish- 

 ment of a Flock Book, the first volume of which appeared in 1900, 

 has brought it to the notice of foreign buyers. 



THE SOUTH DEVON SHEEP. The South Devon or South Dum 

 is an ancient local breed of conspicuous merit, being the chief 

 breed of Cornwall and largely in evidence in Mid-Devon. The 

 publication of the first volume of the South Devon Flock Book 

 Association, in 1904, saved the breed from local obscurity. The 

 oldest foundation flocks date back considerably over a century, 

 although many have been established within the last 25 years. 



THE COTSWOLD SHEEP. The Costwold breed is generally supposed 

 to have derived its name from the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire, 

 to which it belongs. It is not improbable, however, that the hills 

 received their name from the " cotes " or shelters erected for the 

 sheep on the "wold" or bleak open country. The antiquity of 

 the breed is indicated by its hardiness and suitability to its rather 

 trying surroundings, and to the fixity of its type, which has varied 

 little for probably 100 years. 



At one time there was a considerable export trade of Cotswold 

 sheep to Germany, Russia, and the United States of America ; but 

 the tendency of the market fashions in mutton and wool have been 

 against the increase in the numbers of the breed both at home and 

 abroad, and its existence as a local breed now depends largely upon 

 its superiority to other breeds in overcoming the adverse com- 

 bination of circumstances due to the soil and climate of the district 

 to which it belongs. 



THE ROSCOMMON LONGWOOL SHEEP. The Roscommon Long- 

 wood is the only remaining pure Irish breed, and is believed to 

 be centuries old. It is a big upstanding sheep, taller than either 

 the Cotswold or Lincoln, a ;" hardy and active forager, which 

 thrives well on bleak exposed uplands and on its native fertile 

 plains, and is consequently a good tenant-farmers' sheep. " 



