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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Barbary and the Cretan sheep of the Grecian Islands, Hungary, and 
come portions of Austria, and we hare about all the principal species. 
POINTS OF SHEEP. 
Explanation — a — F ace. B — Muzzle. C — Neck. D — Shoulder. E — Poini 
of the Shoulder. F — Breast. O — Girth-place. H — Back. I — Loin, if— 
Rump. L — Thigh. N — Root of tail. 
Notwithstanding the fact that sheep are among the principal sources of 
wealth of all peoples, it is only among enlightened nations that they have 
reached their highest development; and among these, Spain, France, 
Germany, Great Britain and her colonics, and the United States may be 
mentioned as those where systematic breeding have produced the most 
practical results. In no country has this been attained in the production 
of fine wool, to a more excellent degree than among what are now known 
as American merinoes, the result of scientific breeding of the Spanish 
6heep. From present appearances, it will be but a few years before we 
shall excel in the production of long-wooled, and mutton sheep. The 
United States has of course, no native sheep, if we except the Ovia 
Montana, which really is a sheep and not a goat ( Capra ) as many per- 
sons suppose. It inhabits the highest ranges of the Rocky Mountains from 
well north down to New Mexico. The hair, for it is not wool, although 
it is crimped, resembles the hair of the elk — is coarse, but soft to the 
touch, and slightly crimped throughout its length ; about two inches long 
on its back, and on the sides one and a half inches. We believe they 
have never been bred in confinement. In passing it may be interesting to 
our readers to know that at the Pains Exhibition of 1865 there wera 
exhibited the wild sheep of Barbary, Ovia Tragelapua, more resembling 
