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in the "hot house" lamb business. Dorsets 

 are excellent for cross breeding, the lambs 

 growing well and fattening readily, and cross- 

 bred ewes from Merino mothers and Dorset 

 sires form the best foundation for a flock for 

 producing winter lambs. 



THE MOUNTAIN BEEEDS. 



CHEVIOTS. 



The Cheviot is classed as a mountain breed, 

 of which there are a number in England and 

 Scotland, natives of the hill regions. The 

 Cheviot is from the Cheviot hills in southern 

 Scotland and northern England. It is a re- 

 markably hardy, vigorous sheep, standing 

 erect and alert, on strong legs, caiTying ex- 

 cellent mutton and a fine fleece of good wool, 

 rather fine for a mountain breed. There is 

 hardly anywhere a prettier sheep than the 

 Cheviot. It has such an air of interest and 

 intelligence and seems so wide-awake. The 

 Cheviots have displaced the hardier Black- 

 faced breed in all the lower and richer parts 

 of Scotland, though in the colder and more 

 heatheiy portions this ancient "breed still holds 

 its own. 



The Cheviot has a place in our land. It 

 is well adapted to grass farms, to hill regions 

 and wherever sheep are required to make good 

 mutton largely from pasture. 



Naturally the higher and cooler regions are 

 best adapted to this sheep. The breed is 



