LEICESTER SHEEP. 



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"The occasional introduction of a little Cotswold blood into 

 a Leicester flock has the eflfect of improving both the consti- 

 tution of the animal and also the hind quarters, in AVhich the 

 Leicester is somewhat defective. Ram-breeding is carried out 

 to a much larger extent with this breed than with any other." 



CAKSaU.SCMY. 



LKICESTEK EWE. 



The accompanying cuts are from drawings of a pair of 

 Leicesters imported by Mr. Samuel Campbell, of New York 

 Mills, Oneida County, New York, and Mr. James Brodie, of 

 Rural Hill, Jefferson County, New York. They were 

 imported in the spring of 1861. The ram was bred by Mr. 

 Simpson and the ewe by John Thomas Robinson, both of 

 Yorkshire, England. The ram weighs 276 lbs.* Messrs. 

 Campbell and Brodies' ewes weigh from 200 lbs. to 250 lbs. 

 Their "yearlings and wethers yield from 10 lbs. to 15 lbs. of 

 wool and their breeding ewes about 8 lbs." 



* His weight of fleece was not sent to me, nor was the seperate weight of the 

 fleece of the ewe of which a cut is given. Messrs, C. and B. sold a ram to Sanford 

 Howard, Esq., of Boston, which at 21 months old weighed 273 lbs., and they have 

 a two year old which weighs 300 Ihs. 



