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fEnt«e<S ac sorting to Act of Congress, In the year 1373, by D. D, 
of fleece, while at the same time in outward 
form and hardihood of constitution retaining 
much of the primitive type of wild mountain 
sheep. The best kind of Radnors are those 
having black faces, but a large number are 
of a tan, grimy, or gray color, and others, 
though of questionable purity, have faces 
partly white. The rams are horned, and 
the ewes should be hornless—a sexual varia¬ 
tion thought by some high authorities to be 
almost always the result of breeding and 
domestication, Radnor and other Welsh 
mountain ewes frequently show a tendency 
to produce horns ; but such excrescences are 
not cultivated in females of the flock. Sev¬ 
eral of the Radnor ewes exhibited at the late 
Glamorganshire show, held at Cowbridge, 
had, I am told, “short stumps, scarcely 
amounting to horns .’ 7 The Radnors are 
short-legged and active, hardy when exposed 
to severe weather, and thrifty in seeking for 
food on the scant herbage of the mountains. 
Like all sheep of their class they are light in 
THE RADNOR SHEEP 
Morgan Evans of England says :—Some 
of the oldest remaining indigenous breeds of 
sheep in our island arc characterized by black 
faces.*" A remnant of one of these is found in 
the county of Radnor, on the hills of Brecon, 
and scattered along the western part of 
Montgomery and Merioneth. The original 
Shropshire* on the Long Mynd and Morfe 
common were black-faced, horned sheep, 
and were doubtless allied to those of a like 
character in the adjoining counties of Wales, 
and probably had one common origin. The 
moat important class of native dark-faced 
sheep in Wales at the present time are the 
Radnors—a hardy, active race, that under 
improve'! management have developed into 
a breed of fair size, carrying a good weight 
