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THE RURAL NEW-YOKKER 
67 
VALUE AND PLACE OF THE DELAINE 
MERINO. 
More than once, in these columns, I 
1 ave spoken of the place occupied by 
the line wool sheep of the Delaine type. 
1 have lately been associated with Mr. 
R. A. Hayne, of Adena, Jefferson Co., 
Ohio, in institute work in that State. 
This is in the southeastern end of the 
State, across the Ohio River from West 
Virginia, with steep hillsides, hut large 
stretches of plateau on top of the hills, 
kinds rich in Blue grass. Mr. Ilayne is 
i breeder of fine wools of the Delaine 
type, and has a flock of some r>0(). He 
two (;ooi) MIC it i nos. Fiu. 33 . 
finds them particularly well adapted to 
these broken lands, and also very profit¬ 
able. They have large carcasses, the 
ewes weighing 100 pounds and better, 
the rams a good bit more. The two- 
year-old, whose picture is shown in 
Fig. I!. r ), weighed 200 pounds when in 
show condition. The three-year-olds in 
Fig. .'54 weighed 105 pounds each. They 
arc heavy shearers, the two-year-old 
shearing a 12-months’ lleece of 28 
pounds, flic three-year-old ram on the 
right sheared 30 pounds, the one on 
the left 27 pounds. Mis ewes averaged 
12 pounds each. For this wool he ob¬ 
tained last year 28 cents a pound. The 
wool is not short and greasy, like the 
old time Vermont merino, hut of a long 
staple. They are what is known among 
sheep men as “Class B.” merinos; that 
is, fine wool sheep of good size, with 
long staple wool, their bodies free from 
wrinkles but with a few folds on the 
neck. These rams give an excellent 
idea of the type. It will be observed 
that they have square bodies, good quar¬ 
ters, extending well down the legs. The 
two-year-old is, to my mind, one of the 
finest specimens of the breed T have 
seen. lie won first premium at the 
West Virginia State Fair, and at nu¬ 
merous county fairs in Ohio. For rams 
of this type Mr. Ilayne tells me he 
gets from $75 to $100. 
Here we have a type of sheep that 
lacks the weight of the black-faced 
mutton breeds, are not so handsome, 
and their carcasses will not bring quite 
so much in market. On the other hand, 
they shear fully one-third more wool, 
which brings hut little less, per pound, 
TURKIC-YEAR-OLD MERINOS. Km. 34. 
than that from the Downs. They are 
much hardier, their close wool shedding 
the rain. They will feed on the hill 
pastures, and keep in good condition, 
where the mutton breeds would scarce 
thrive at all. 1'heir carcasses make good 
mutton, and while they do not often 
bear twins, as do the English breeds, 
ihcir lambs fatten easily and mature 
early. These sheep will breed earlier in 
the season than any other, except the 
Dorset and Tunis, so that if Winter 
lambs are desired they can he obtained 
pretty early, and by using a Southdown 
or Shropshire ram, a compact black- 
faced quickly maturing lamb will re¬ 
sult. 
With the above valuable character¬ 
istics to their credit it would appear 
strange that they have not been more 
generally kept. There are several rea¬ 
sons for this. It is only a few years 
since the fine wool breeders (whose 
sheep all had a common origin in the 
Spanish Merino) have stopped wran¬ 
gling about the alleged merits of their 
respective breeds, and decrying the de¬ 
merits of those other than their own. 
Such a course never makes any breed 
popular. Now that the fine wool men 
have got together, and classified their 
sheep, and have gone to work to im¬ 
prove their respective types, and by 
showing and improving their good 
qualities, they are attracting attention 
to their valuable points, and the mutton 
fine wool is bound to take the place lie 
deserves to occupy. While the fine 
wool breeders have been “beating the 
air” those who have had the mutton 
breeds have been steadily at work, im¬ 
proving and booming their sheep, and 
they have been "it.” With the demand 
for mutton, and the low prices that 
prevailed for wool, and the popular, al- 
diough erroneous idea that the fine wool 
was a little wrinkled sheep, with a car¬ 
cass no larger than a yellow dog, it is 
easy to see why the beautiful black- 
faccd symmetrical sheep have been most 
in the public eye. The words of Isaiah 
TWO-YEAR-OLD MERINO. Em. 35. 
arc as true of many in these latter days 
as they were of Israel of old, when he 
said: “We all, like sheep, have gone 
astray; we have turned every one to 
his own way.” It is becoming more and 
more impressed in my own mind (al¬ 
though now, and for many years, a 
breeder of coarse wools) that with the 
demand for sheep to take the place of 
the dairy, in many cases, so as to avoid 
the expensive and constant labor re¬ 
quired, particularly in the rough hilly 
lands, and in most cases by those who 
have had no previous experience with 
them, these good-bodied, hardy sheep 
will suit these conditions, and be a 
much surer and greater source of profit 
than the strictly mutton breeds, which 
must have much better care and feed 
to produce equal results. 'The mutton 
breeds have been produced under en¬ 
tirely different conditions, and unless 
similar ones are provided disappoint¬ 
ment and failure will result, and the 
sheep, and all sheep, will he condemned, 
with a consequent loss, both to the 
individual and the sheep industry as 
a whole. Howard van alstyne. 
“’R astks,” said the neighbor, “I’d 
like to borrow that mule of yours.” 
“Goodness sakes, boss,” was the re¬ 
joinder, “I’d like to ’commodate you; 
hut 1’s had some ’spericnee wif dc law. 
If a man is 'sponsible for the acts of 
his agent an’ I was to lend dal mule out 
it wouldn’ be no time befo’ ] was ar¬ 
rested for assassination!”—Washington 
Star. 
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LAFAYETTE, INDIANA. 
The Largest Importers ami Breeders of Gorman Coach, 
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With Dumping Caldron. Empties its 
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GRIND YOUR 
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Raw Furs 
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• ng ' 
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