THE ENGLISH SHEEP DOG. 



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powerful races, possessing the same general characteristicSj 

 are to he found in almost every country excepting our own, 

 where the fine-wooled breeds of sheep have been extensively 

 introduced. With a commjerce extending to all ;the mari- 

 time nations of the world, it is singular that so little pains 

 have been taken to introduce them. 



The English Sheep Dog. — The foUowing cut presents 

 an accurate portrait of an, animal of this breed^ imported by 

 Mr. B. Gates, of Gap Grove, Lee county, Illinois. It is taken 

 from The Farmer's Library : ' 



DBOVEE S DOG. 



The Drover's Dog, or English Sheep Dog, or Butcher's 

 Dog — for by all these different names is he known — is thus 

 described by Mr. Theodore C. Peters, of Darien, New York, 

 in third volume of the American Agriculturist, 1844 : 



"I purchased a bitch of the tailless species, known as the 

 English drover dog, in Smithfield market, some two years 

 ago. That species is much used upon the downs, and is a 

 larger and fleeter dog than the CoUey. We raised two litters 

 from her, got by Jack, [a CoUey,] and I think the cross will 



