308 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
437. Organizations and records. — The National Lin- 
coln Sheep Breeders’ Association of America, organized 
in 1891, looks after the interests of the breed in this 
country. It has published two flock-books. In England 
there is the Lincoln Long-Wool Sheep Breeders’ Associa- 
tion, organized in 1892. It issues a volume of its flock- 
book each year. 
CotswoLtp SHEEP. Plate XIII. 
By David McCrae 
438. The Cotswold is a breed of sheep raised both for 
wool and for mutton. It is of large size, capable of 
enduring much hardship and exposure, and well adapted 
to many soils. The name is derived from a range of 
bleak uplands in Gloucestershire, EERE known as 
Cotswold hills. 
439. History in England. — The Cotswold is an old 
English breed, whose antiquity is undoubted. It is one 
of the earliest sheep mentioned by name in Anglo-Saxon 
records. In the time of the Roman conquests, the region 
from which these sheep came is said to have been famous 
for the production of wool. Low suggests that the Cots- 
wold was developed from the sheep found in the counties 
of Warwick and Oxford at an early period. The modern 
Cotswold is not so large nor so high-standing as was the 
older breed, but has more style, being remarkable for 
symmetry, early maturity and weight, with a lofty car- 
riage, a fine, well-covered head, and an abundant fleece of 
white, wavy wool. Much of this improvement is ascribed 
to the use of Leicester rams on Cotswold ewes, a practice 
very common about the beginning of the nineteenth cen- 
tury. 
