CONTENTS. 7 



Department Bulletin 94. — Domestic Breeds of Sheep in America: Page. 



Introduction 1 



Classification of the breeds 4 



The Merino 6 



The Rambouillet 10 



The Southdown 13 



The Shropshire 16 



The Hampshire 19 



The Oxford Down 22 



The Dorset Horn 24 



Suffolk Down 26 



The Cheviot 28 



The Tunis 30 



The Welsh Mountain 33 



The Exmoor horn sheep 34 



TheRyeland 35 



The Kerry Hill 36 



The Lonk 38 



The Shetland 38 



The Leicester 39 



The Cotswold 42 



The Lincoln 45 



The Kent or Romney Marsh 47 



The Wensleydale 49 



The Dartmoor 50 



The Black-fac ed Highland 51 



The Karakule or Arabi 53 



The Persian sheep 55 



The Barbados... 55 



The Barbary sheep or Aoudad 56 



Appendix 57 



Partial index of recent publications on the breeds of sheep 59 



Department Bulletin 95. — Insect Damage to the Cones and Seeds of 

 Pacific Coast Conifers: 



Introduction 1 



Character and cause of damage 2 



Important groups of seed-infesting insects 4 



Adaptation of the insects to the intermittent cone-producing habits of the 



host trees 5 



Indications of insect damage 6 



Methods of preventing losses 6 



Department Bulletin 96. — The Temperature of the Bee Colony: 



Introduction 1 



Apparatus 1 



The bees 5 



The arrangement of the thermometers 5 



Location of apparatus , . . . 5 



Check colony 5 



Methods of observation and recording 6 



The consumption of stores in winter : 6 



General phenomena of the cluster in winter 10 



Temperatme below frames in relation to outside air 12 



Comparisons of temperatures of the center of the cluster and of the outside 



air 14 



Effects of manipulation on the cluster 15 



Behavior of the cluster in winter; observations on the check colony 16 



