DOMESTIC BREEDS OF SHEEP. 
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Table of information upon the breeds of sheep. 
[F-=fine wool; M= medium wool: C=coarse wool; W=woolless.] 
Breed. 
Rams. 
Ewes. 
Color of face. 
Grade of wool. 
Number 
recorded 
Jan. 1, 
1913. 
Class at 
the 
Roval, 
Eng- 
land. 
Merino A type. . . F . . 
Horned . 
...do 
...do.... 
...do.... 
PoUed.. 
...do 
...do.... 
...do.... 
Homed . 
Polled.. 
...do.... 
...do 
Homed . 
...do.... 
Polled .. 
...do.... 
Horned . 
Either.. 
PoUed . . 
...do.... 
...do.... 
...do.... 
...do 
...do 
PoUed.. 
...do 
...do 
...do.... 
...do.... 
...do 
...do.... 
...do.... 
...do 
...do.... 
...do 
...do 
...do.... 
Homed . 
PoUed . . 
...do 
Homed . 
Either.. 
PoUed . . 
...do 
...do.... 
...do.... 
...do 
...do 
White 
Fine clothing 
Merino B tvpe...F.. 
do 
do 
do 
Gray 
Soft black 
Black... 
do 
Merino C type...F.. 
Rambouillet F.. 
Southdown M.. 
Shropshire M. . 
Hampshire M . . 
iTine clothing and eomb- 
\ ing. 
i-blood combing or cloth- 
ing; f-blood combing 
or'clo thing. 
f-blood combing: f-blood 
clothing. 
f-blood combing: J-blood 
combing. 
J-blood combing: braid.. 
f-blood combing; J-blood 
combing. 
J-blood combing: f-blood 
combing. 
/ 1500 
\ 2 73, 305 
30, 645 
385, 411 
49, 640 
67,230 
15, 030 
2,264 
S, 115 
2,530 
} 
1839 
1S60 
1862 
Oxford M.. 
Brown 
Dorset Horn M. . 
White 
1862 
Suffolk M.. 
Black 
1880 
Cheviot M. 
White 
1S71 
Tunis M.. 
Mottled 
f-blood combing: ^-blood 
combing. 
J-blood combing 
WelshMountain.M. . 
Slightly tanned 
or speckled. 
White 
1885 
Exmoor Horn...M.. 
do 
Ryeland M.. 
do 
do 
1870 
Kerry Hill M.. 
do 
1907 
Lonk M.. 
do 
1877 
Shetland M.. 
Black, white, or 
White 
Probably §-blood comb- 
ing. 
Braid and low J-blood. . 
do 
do 
Low, i-blood combing... 
Braid 
Leicester C_. 
15, 913 
74,455 
26,122 
m 
1839 
Cotswold C. 
Lincoln C 
Romney Marsh.. C. 
Light gray or 
speckled.' 
White, slightly 
speckled. 
White 
1862 
1S62 
1862 
Wenslevdale C. . 
Bluish white 
Speckled black 
and white. 
Mottled, black 
and white. 
Black 
1883 
Dartmoor C. . 
do 
1875 
Black-faced High- 
land, C. 
Karakule C. 
Homed . 
...do.... 
...do 
Homed . 
PoUed.. 
...do 
...do 
Homed . 
Low, J-blood combing 
and carpet wool. 
do 
1872 
Persian C 
Mottled or dark . 
Black and fawn . 
do 
Barbados W. . 
Either. . 
Horned . 
Barbary W.. 
i Von Hornever Association. 
2 American Association. 
PARTIAL INDEX OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON THE BREEDS OF SHEEP. 
Sheeping Farming, by John A. Craig. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1913. 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals, by C. S. Plumb. New York, Ginn & Co., 1906. 
Farm Livestock in Great Britain, by Robert Wallace. Edinburg, Oliver & Boyd, 
1907. 
Sheep Breeds and Management, by John Wrightson. London, Vinton & Co., 1895. 
The Sheep and its Cousins, by R. Lydekker. London, George Allen & Co., 1912. 
Cattle, Sheep and Pigs, by F. T. Barton. London, Jarrold & Sons, 1912. 
Modern Sheep, Breeds and Management, by "Shepherd Boy." Chicago, American 
Sheep Breeder Co., 1907. 
Sheep Farming in America, by Joseph E. Wing. Chicago, Sanders Publishing Co., 
1907. 
Sheep Management, by Frank Kleinheinz. Cant well Printing Co.. Madison, 
Wis., 1911. 
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WASHIXGTOX : GOyERXMEXT PRIXTIXG OFFICE \ 1914 
