452 JUDGING FARM ANIMALS 



Points 



Neck — Moderately long and well set, and blending well ■with the body, 



with some crest in the rams 5 



rorequarters — ^Well developed; breast wide, deep and full; brisket broad; 

 chest capacious, with good heart girth; shoulders broad, oblique and 

 well filled in the neck vein and crops; withers broad; arm well de- 

 veloped 15 



Barrel — Roomy; back straight, broad and well fleshed throughout its 

 cntre hngth; ribs well sprung and moderately deep; fore and hind 

 flanks full and deep 10 



Hindquarters — Long, deep and full ; tail, broad and well set up ; buttock 



broad; twist full; thigh broad and full X5 



Feet and legs — Straight, of medium length with flat bone; bare of wool 



btlow knee and hock, glossy black in color, and set well apart . . 8 



rieece — Moderately short, with close, fine, lustrous fiber, and without 

 tendency to mat or felt together, or to shade into dark or gray 

 wool or hair, especially about the neck or tail. The fleece should 

 cover the whole body except the head and the legs below the knee 

 and hock ; and the skin underneath it should be fair, soft and of a 

 pink color 10 



Total 100 



The Tunis breed of sheep comes from ancestry tracing 

 tack to an importation from Tunis to America, in 1799. 

 Tnnis sheep have not been bred extensively in America, 

 and lack uniformity of character. It is a hornless, medium 

 wool breed. The color marks are variable. Some sheep 

 have reddish-brown heads, ears and legs, while with others 

 the colors are mottled brown and white, especially of head 

 end ear. The ears are large, broad and pendulous, and 

 covered with fine hair. In size, the Tunis is of the smaller 

 class of mutton sheep, rams at maturity weighing 150 

 pounds or more, and ewes 120 pounds. A peculiarity of 

 this sheep is its broad tail. At maturity it may measure 

 five inches or more in width, and maintains this breadth 

 for a length of six or eight inches from the tail-head. The 

 lambs are usually docked, so that the naturally conspicuous 

 character of tail is not seen, though the rump on this ac- 

 count is more full and heavier than with our other breeds. 

 The neck inclines to be long, but the body as a whole is of 

 fair mutton form. There is also a tendency to be somewhat 

 leggy. The fleece is of excellent quality, being fine, soft 

 and fairly compact, and averages about three inches in 



