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or slightly rolling lands where food is abundant. It has also 

 thrived in the Allegheny Mountain region under conditions of 

 good grazing. 



Organizations of the Dorset Horn sheep breeders were perfected 

 in 1 89 1 in both England and the United States. In Eng- 

 land the Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders' Association gives official 

 supervision to the breed. Its first flock book was published in 

 1892, since which up to 191 7 it has issued twenty-six volumes. 

 There is also in England another association for promoting the 

 breed — the Dorset Down Sheep Breeders' Association. Each of 

 these organizations has its office at Dorchester. In 1891 the 

 Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders of America organized and estab- 

 lished a flock book, publishing the first and second volumes in 

 one in 1894. This association for many years has manifested no 

 symptoms of activity. Owing to a disagreement among the mem- 

 bers, Iff 1897 the Continental Dorset Club was organized, with 

 headquarters in Ohio. This club published its first flock book in 

 1900 and in 1918 issued its eighteenth volume. This is essen- 

 tially the only organization promoting the breed in America. 



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