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years and remained intact. It has many characteristics that are consid- 

 ered valuable. It breeds at an early season and weans its lambs while 

 they are young, and are ready to be served soon after, thus producing 

 two crops of lambs in a year. Many of them produce twins, a Mr. Pit- 

 field, of Bridport, Dorset, England, raised five hundred fift}'^-five lambs 

 in one season from four hundred ewes. 



They have long, white, broad faces, with a tuft of wool on the fore- 

 head; the nose and lips are black; the shoulders broad; the brisket 

 straight back, and deep; and the loins are broad and deep. They have 

 medium length legs, light in bone. 







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AN ENGLISH DORSET HORN YEARLING RAM. 



The Dorsets are a quiet, docile, hardy breed, and will adapt them- 

 selves readily to varying conditions. They get their growth early, and 

 when fed on turnips alone, at two years will weigh one hundred twenty- 

 five. The fleece is not heavy, but yields about six pounds of soft, clean, 

 white wool. The lambs produce the "lamb's wool" of which babies' 

 underclothing is often made. 



