THE BHOAD-TAILED SHEEP. 4? 



Milk, wool, &c. 



storm has subsided, however, they are generally 

 sought for and disengaged. 



A good sheep of the Icelandic or many-horned 

 breed will yield from two to six quarts of milk a 

 day; and of this the inhabitants make butter and 

 cheese: but the most valuable part of these ani- 

 mals is the wool ; which is not shorn, hut remains 

 on till the end of May, when it loosens of itself, 

 and is stripped off at once like a skjn. The whole 

 body is by this time covered again with new 

 wool, which is short and extremely fine. It con- 

 tinues to grow during the summer, and becomes 

 towards autumn of a coarser texture, very shag- 

 gy, and somewhat resembling camel's hair. Tins 

 covering enables the sheep to support the rigors 

 of winter; but if, after losing their fleece, the 

 spring prove .wet, a piece of coarse cloth is 

 usually sewn round the stomachs of the weakest 

 to defend them from any ill effects. 



THE BROAD-TAILED SHEEP. 



THIS variety, principally found in Persia, 

 Barbary, Syria, E;ypt, and some other Oriental 

 countries, does not differ much from the Euro- 

 pean sheep in the appearance of its body: but 

 the tail is so remarkably large as to compose one 

 third of the whole weight of the animal; and in 

 prder to prevent injury from the bushes, the 



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