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SHEEP 



The distribution of the Lincoln is largely limited to Lincoln- 

 shire and adjoining east counties in England, while it has been 

 extensively exported to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 

 Argentine Republic, Russia, Canada, and the United States. 

 At the present time an extensive trade exists between British 

 breeders and South American buyers, Lincoln rams being heavily 

 shipped to the Argentine. In the United States the breed has 

 never secured much foothold, neither has it seemed so well 

 adapted to our conditions as to those of Canada or England. 

 Lincoln sheep are mainly kept in Ontario and other Canadian 



provinces, and in Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 and Ohio, several flocks 

 being kept in each of these 

 states. Sheep of this large 

 type cannot thrive satis- 

 factorily during the hot, 

 dry summers so common 

 in the central United 

 States. No doubt they 

 will do better on the 

 upper Pacific coast, in 

 Oregon and Washington, 

 where the climate more 

 nearly resembles that of 

 England. 



Organizations to promote Lincoln sheep interests exist in Eng- 

 land and America. The Lincoln Long- Wool Sheep Breeders' 

 Association, with headquarters in England, in the native county 

 of the breed, supervises the welfare of these sheep in Great 

 Britain. This association was organized in 1892, and has pub- 

 lished 15 volumes of flock books up to 1906. The National 

 American Lincoln Sheep Breeders' Association was organized 

 in 1 89 1, and has published two flock books up to 1906. 



The important breeders and improvers of Lincolns are still to 

 be found in Lincolnshire. Mr. Henry Dudding of Riby Grove, 

 Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, is the most distinguished improver 

 of to-day, and has done much for the breed. The Dudding family 



Fig. 210. A Lincoln ewe lamb of very superior 

 character at the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England Show, 1904. Her fleece swept 

 the ground. Photograph by H. B. Arbuckle, 

 from the National Stockman and Farmer 



