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SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



The Dorsets, when crossed with the Southdown, do not produce so 

 many twins, but the lambs will shear about two pounds of very soft, 

 valuable wool. These lambs, when full-grown, are larger than their 

 Porset mothers, and are a larger and thriftier sheep, with a heavier and 

 finer fleece. 



They have been imported into this country, and are beginning to 

 attract attention. , i* 





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A LINCOLN RAM. 



The I/incoln. This is one of the ' 'long-wool' ' sheep which orig- 

 inated in the rich low-lands of England. These lands, however, were 

 so productive of high-priced, marketable crops, that the sheep have been 

 driven from their native soil to the uplands. All the other of the well- 

 known ' 'long-wool' ' varieties have been almost entirely driven out from 

 this low, rich, alluvial soil, leaving the Lincoln almost undisputed pos- 

 session. 



This breed is the heaviest bodied sheep in existence. Full-grown 

 sheep of this variety have dressed nearly one hundred pounds per quar- 

 ter. It is not an unusual thing for yearlings to dress one hundred 

 pounds and shear a dozen pounds of wool. This breed will be called a 

 long-wooled sheep, because the wool, wb^n full grown, often measures 

 nine inches in length. There is a record of twenty-six pounds and six 



