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are quiet and docile, easily managed, giving fleeces averaging about 3 1-8 
pounds, furnishing good mutton, weighing 12 to 18 pounds per quarter* 
Of three years old. 
VIII. White-faced Highland Sheep. 
HIGHLAND SHEEP. 
This is a sheep of great hardiness, furnishing good mutton, but not i 
wool of much value, and is introduced only as necessary to illustrate a 
breed adapted to sterile regions, where better breeds would not survive. 
Many such regions are found in our own land, especially in the Rocky 
Mountain sections, where the trial of this race might well be made. 
IX. Dorset Sheep. 
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Dorsetshire has a breed peculiar to itself. Strong, active, and well 
able to take care of itself : heavier in every respect than the highlands, 
and like this breed, a strong horned race. On this account, neither of 
these breeds would be considered valuable, except in regions where the 
better fleeced breeds would not live. The cut is given like that of the 
highland long horned family, as affording possible value in Alpine regions. 
Fortunately there is but little country of this nature on this Western continent. 
And yet there are rigorous climates, where this breed would undoubtedly 
thrive and make a good return to its cultivator. The experiment may b« 
made with much hope of success. 
