886 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
lines it is similar to the Shropshire and the Morfe Com- 
mon sheep, being leggy, with light fleece and a speckled 
black and white face. The Ryeland breeder selects the 
lambs with the white faces and legs, and the Shropshire 
breeder takes those with the dark faces and legs. The 
Ryeland is a very compact and hardy sheep, and fattens 
very readily. In form, it is thick and heavy in the 
hind-quarters, with broad, 
level back, full round body, 
a little inclined to be coarse 
in the shoulders, short, well- 
set neck, and broad head, 
with some wool covering on 
the head. Its legs are short 
and straight. The Ryeland 
is an active, vigorous sheep, 
midway between the South- 
down and the Shropshire in type and adaptability. Both 
the lambs and the ewes of the Ryeland breed are hornless, 
and the wool is finer in character, perhaps, than that of 
any of the other medium-wool breeds. 
The first importation of the Ryeland sheep into America 
was made by George MchKerrow, of Pewaukee, Wiscon- 
sin, early in the summer of 1907, for the Colorado Agri- 
cultural College. The breed has been but a short time 
in this country, but it is well adapted for the mutton- 
producing sections of America. The lambs are dropped 
very fat, and the ewes are wonderfully good mothers. 
They seem to cross well with both the Southdowns and 
Shropshires. The fleece of the Ryeland is not so heavy 
nor so dense as that of the Shropshire, but it is longer 
and finer in the staple. 
477. Tunis sheep. By David McCrae.— Tunis is a 
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Fic. 79.— Ryeland ram. 
