DOMESTIC BREEDS OF SHEEP. 33 
Points. 
Form: Body straight, broad, and well proportioned; small bone; breast wide and 
prominent in front; tail should be docked short 12 
Head: Small and hornless, or nearly so, tapering to end of nose; face and nose 
clean, brown and white in color; ears broad, pendulous, and covered with 
fine hair, brown to white in color 10 
Neck: Medium in length, well placed on shoulders; small and tapering 5 
Legs: Short; color, brown and white (wooled below the knee, not objectionable). 6 
Size: In fair condition, when fully matured, rams should weigh 150 pounds 
and upward; ewes, 120 pounds and upward 6 
General appearance: Good carriage; head well up, quick, elastic movements 
showing symmetry of form and uniformity of character throughout 6 
Total 100 
THE WELSH MOUNTAIN. 
A number of different types are included under the name of Welsh 
Mountain sheep. Upon the highest lulls of Wales the original sheep 
exists, but in other sections crosses have been made with the Leices- 
ter, Lincoln, Cheviot, Black-faced Highland, and Radnor forest 
breeds. The crosses with the Lincoln and Leicester have taken 
place mainly upon the fertile lowlands, and a larger earlier maturing 
sheep has resulted. This has been an advantage where the sheep are 
fed roots or other feed additional to their pasture, but where this is 
not practiced the cross has resulted disastrously because of the conse- 
quent lessening of the ability to rustle for itself. 
The Black-faced Highland cross resulted in an increase in weight 
and amount of wool produced. The color of the wool was changed 
to yellow. The Cheviot cross produced similar characteristics, but 
resulted in a sheep too large for mountain grazing. 
Upon the hilltops these sheep are very small, but upon the eastern 
slope of Berwyn and Merionith Hills they are larger and of a better 
type and possess much finer wool. It is said that a dark-faced type 
exists hi Radnor, western Montgomeryshire, and parts of Merionith. 
The great difference in size and appearance may be accounted for by 
the different types of sheep used in crossing. They weigh from 32 
pounds upward, and the mutton, with that of the Blackface and 
Southdown, is the best on the London market. The favorite type 
has a white face, though rusty brown, yellow, speckled, and gray 
faces may be found. 
The poll is clean, but sometimes a tuft of wool is present upon the 
ram's head. The head is small, carried high, the neck is long, the 
shoulders somewhat low; the girt is small; and the sides are flat. 
The rams have gracefully curved horns, while the ewes are usually 
hornless. The wool of the better type is of excellent quality, the 
famous Welsh flannels, shawls, etc., being made from it. Fleeces 
are said to weigh from 2 pounds upward, depending upon the type. 
