BREED CHARACTERISTICS 399 



Points. 

 Brought forward ............ 19 



COLLAR. Full from breast and shoulders, tapering gradually all 

 the way to where the neck and head join. The neck should be 

 short, thick and strong, indicating constitutional vigor, and free 

 from coarse and loose skin . 6 



SHOULDERS. Broad and full, and at the same time join so gradu- 

 ally to the collar forward and chine backward as not to leave 

 the least hollow in either place 8 



FORELEGS. The mutton on the arm or forethigh should come 

 quite to the knee. Leg upright with heavy bone, being clear 

 from superfluous skin, with wool to fetlock, and may be mixed 

 with gray 4 



BREAST. Broad and well forward, keeping the legs apart, girth 

 or chest, full and deep 10 



FOREFLANK. Quite full, not showing hollow behind the shoulder 5 



BACK AND LOIN. Broad, flat and straight, from which the ribs 

 must spring with a fine, circular arch . . .... . . . 12 



BELLY. ^Straight on underline 



QUARTERS. Long and full, with mutton quite down to the hock 



HOCK. Should stand neither in or out 2 



TWIST. Or junction inside the thighs, deep, wide and full, which, 

 with a broad breast, will keep the legs open and upright . . 5 



FLEECE. The whole body should be covered with long, lustrous 

 wool 18 



Total 100 



Romney. The Romney breed is a native of Kent county, 

 England. The breed is comparatively new and untried in 

 America. The head and legs are white, the wool extending 

 down to the knees and hocks and up to the extremity of the 

 jaws, reaching over the poll and terminating in a tuft on 

 the forehead. It is fair in mutton production, the back 

 being broad and the body very compact in form. The early 

 type of the breed was small, flat-ribbed and late in maturing 

 qualities. The modern type is more refined and compact 

 and has better fattening propensities. The back is broad, 

 long and the quarters are well developed. The breed is 

 hornless. It is claimed it is free from foot-rot, but this 

 may be somewhat exaggerated. The breed is adapted to 

 low-lying lands, although it is not likely that it is entirely 

 immune from this disease, peculiar to sheep when main- 

 tained on low lands. The quality of the breed is fair in mut- 

 ton and wool. There is some inclination to coarseness of bone 

 and open fleece characteristics, an average fleece weighing 



