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VOLUME XXVI— No. 4. 
NEW- YORK, APRIL, 1867. 
NEW SERIES— No. 243. 
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SOUTHDOWN RAM .— PROPERTY OF AMA9A BE>na & SON, SOUTH BukkE, Vt.— Drawn from Life and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Every lover of good mutton has an affection 
for anything that looks like a Southdown Sheep. 
Among; the Southdowns there is an aristocracy 
of pedigree, form and excellence, and so we hon- 
or the name of Jonas Wehh, of Babraham, Eng- 
land, as a benefactor of the race, on account of 
the degree of excellence to ■which his careful 
breeding brought this favorite mutton breed. 
The Ram above portrayed was sketched by 
our artist at the New England and Vermont 
Fair last fall, as the winner of the first prize in 
his class. He is known as "No. 19 " of Bemis 
& Son's flock ; is three years old ; was bred by 
J. C. Taylor of some of his best stock, imported 
in 18G0. Mr. T. having secured at Mr. Webb's 
sale the very choice ones of the flock. This 
blood tells wherever it has been scattered, — 
even where it is used upon common flocks, and 
the grades show little of the Southdown look. 
The butcher's knife develops the beautifully 
marbled chops and thick loins which charac- 
terize the breed. Southdown mutton, or that 
of grade Southdown?, always commands the 
very highest market price in all our large cities. 
In fact, it is rarely found in the common mar- 
kets—the sheep being sold to butchers having 
private Stalls. In New York good Southdown 
mutton brings a price at retail equal to good beef. 
Early lambs, half Southdown, meet a quick mar- 
ket from green-pea time until late in the season. 
