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holdings by thousands, this being the one breed in evidence on 

 these hills. Cheviots are chiefly bred in Roxburgh, Dumfries, 

 Peebles, and Sutherland counties (Scotland), and in Northumber- 

 land County (England). They are also bred to a small extent in 

 Ireland and have been exported to New Zealand. In Canada the 

 breed has grown in considerable favor in recent years, and in 



19 1 8, in Saskatchewan, George W. Brown sold a flock of 600 

 high-grade ewes to the government for distribution among the 

 farmers. In the United States the Cheviot has been pretty well 

 distributed from Tennessee north and from the Atlantic to the 

 Far West. There are many flocks in eastern New York, with 

 flocks in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, Tennessee, 

 and other states. In 191 8 the largest flock in the United States, 

 numbering about 500 head, was owned in Maine, and the breed 

 is rapidly growing in favor in the northeastern United States. 



Cheviot sheep breeders' organizations exist in Britain and the 

 United States. The Cheviot Sheep Society of Great Britain was 

 organized in 1891, Volume I of the flock book appearing in 

 1893, there having been published twenty-eight volumes up to 



1 9 19, registering 3252 rams, ewes not being recorded. In 1891 

 the American Cheviot Sheep Breeders' Association was organized 

 in New York State. Owing to disaffection among the members, 

 in 1894 the National Cheviot Sheep Society was organized in 

 Indiana. In 1900 these organizations amalgamated, forming the 

 American Cheviot Sheep Society, incorporated under the laws 

 of New York. Each of the old associations published one flock 

 book, while the new society in 1901 published another as Vol- 

 ume III. Up to 19 1 8 this society had pubhshed its latest flock 

 book in 1905, as Volume IV, with registration brought up to 3S00. 



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