CHAPTER LXII 



THE BLACK FACED HIGHLAND 



The native home of Black Faced Highland Sheep is the more 

 elevated section of Scotland, especially in the Highlands, in the 

 counties of Perth and Dumbarton. Here this breed has been bred 

 on the heather-topped hills, where the winters are rough and cold, 

 for certainly one hundred and twenty-five years or more. 



The origin of the Black Faced Highland Sheep is unknown. 

 Sheep of this sort have been known for a long period of time in 



Fig. 212. A Black Faced Highland ram, first prize in class at the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England Show, 1904. Photograph from William 

 Cooper & Nephews, Berkhamsted, England 



the Highlands, where in earlier days they were not very pop- 

 ular. The fact that this breed was extremely hardy and could 

 endure on the higher mountains even better than the Cheviot gave 

 it a foothold a half century or so ago, which it has since held. 



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