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MARKET CLASSES OF SHEEP 



are classed as feeders, provided they are healthy western sheep and 

 not extremely coarse and advanced in age. Occasionally a few 



Fig. 210. 



Fig. 211. 



Fig. 210. — Common wethers. Thin in flesh, heavy pelts. (From Illinois Station 

 Bulletin 129.) 



Fig. 211. — Common ewes. Very thin in flesh. (From Illinois Station Bulletin 129.) 



natives are taken out as feeders, but so rarely and in such small 

 numbers that they can not be listed as belonging to the feeder class. 



