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a Mr. Robson, by use of sheep from Lincolnshire, is credited with 

 much improving the breed. In the last century Mr. Thomas Elliott 

 of Under Hindhope, Jedburgh, was a famous breeder and improver. 

 The introduction of the Cheviot to the United States first 

 occurred in 1838, by Robert Youngs of Delhi, Delaware County, 



New York. They had 

 some time previously been 

 imported into Canada by 

 a Mr. Pope of Cookshire, 

 Quebec. In 1842 George 

 Lough and a Mr. David- 

 son of Delaware County, 

 New York, made importa- 

 tions. In 1845 T. J. Car- 

 michael imported three 

 rams and six ewes to Jef- 

 ferson County, Wisconsin. 

 Cheviots were introduced 



Fig. 193. Trinlieknowe (1327), a Cheviot show 

 and stud ram owned by J. R. C. Smith, Mow- 

 haugh, Scotland. Photograph from the owner 



into Pennsylvania in 1889 by T. M. Patterson, into Illinois in 1888 

 by E. Pumphrey, and into Indiana in 1891 by H. H. Keim. 



Characteristics of the Cheviot. The head is usually hornless 

 and is covered with hard, white, short hair to behind the ear and 

 around the jaw. The lips and nostrils should be black, though 

 frequently they are mottled flesh colored and black. The nose 

 should be broad, with a Roman curve to a slight degree. The 

 head is short and broad between the prominent, large eyes. The 

 ears are white and free from wool, and are thinner and longer than 

 the Shropshire ear. The Cheviot shoulder is lighter than with 

 lowland breeds, and the body lacks the breadth of the Shropshire 

 and Southdown. The skin is unusually pink and rich in color. 

 The fleece covers the body and extends up the neck to behind 

 the ears, forming a sort of collar, and covering the legs to knees 

 and hocks. The fleece is of the middle-wool, combing class, is 

 neither fine nor coarse of staple, and averages about four inches 

 long. Sometimes the wool on the lower, back part of the thigh 

 is long and tends to be hairy, a very objectionable feature. The 

 head and ears often have small black spots which are no disquali- 

 fications of purity. Reddish or sandy hair also occasionally occurs 



