56 SHEEP FARMING IN AMERICA. 



among early lamb growers; there are Persian 

 fat-tailed sheep in Texas, California and Ne- 

 vada; there are some of the mountain breeds, 

 found here and there, but we will not here 

 take them up. Among the breeds described 

 the would-be sheep owner can choose one and 

 he should stick to that one. Gross-breeding 

 is permissible for the market, but let no one 

 undertake at this day to create a new breed of 

 sheep by mingling the bloods of breeds al- 

 ready having received the care and thought 

 of generations of skillful breeders. One man's 

 lifetime is too short to establish a breed, and 

 there seems small need of another. 



