SHEEP-RAISING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



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Cheviot ram. 



the wrecked ships of the Spanish Armada. During the Middle Ages the monks kept 

 flocks of this breed in the vicinity of the monasteries. Later, Lincoln and Leicester 

 blood was used to improve it. At the beginning of the last century the Cheviot 

 breed was displacing the Black-faced Highland in Scotland to quite an extent, but 

 in :i series of bad winters it did not prove hardy enough on the high lands of the 

 region, and the Black-faced breed came back to its own. Nowadays the two breeds 

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