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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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tness for market at eighteen months old,and their almost double value when in market, and you have advantageswhich far outweigh the additional amount of food which the muttonsheep may consume in proportion to his size. 1020 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. This is high praise not only for the Cotswolds, but for the South-Downs, which were always a favorite breed in the hill region of theSouth. It must be remembered, however, that none of the long-wooled or 1 ,,. _^o;^;,\- ^ ,,,^-^ f:$ -Jf -mm Jt- -■■«■ 1 :p 1 ;:; t;. - ^ m^^ ^ —i^Z5E- m¥ tM ■■i.- ^ ;f ^li!^ Ill WflH ^ — .^ the mutton breeds do well in large flocks. As before stated, 100 of thesesheep is the largest number that should be flocked together. The illus-tration of yearling Cotswold will serve as a good representation of the VARIETIES OF SHEEP AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 1021 fully wooled animal at this age. It also shows the foretop of wool onthe pate, which is characteristic of this breed.
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VI. New Oxfordshire Sheep. Another breed that has been introduced into the United States, but has not met with general favor, is the New Oxfordshire, one of the breeds arising from crosses of the New Leicester upon the Cotswold. They should not be confounded with the Oxford-Down, whichis a cross between 1022 Gf Cl/OPBDIA or UTB S1O0K Ain> CKWPLBTB STOCK DOCTOB. the Cotswold and Hampshire-Down, and belongs to the middle-wools, aswell as to the special mutton breeds. In England they are regarded intheir own locality ^Yith favor. They are less hardy than the Cotswolds,and in the United States have not been received with special favor. Theillustration of New-Oxfordshire ewe will show the general appearance ofthe breed. VTL The Oxford-Downs. This excellent breed of Enghsh sheep is said to have originated aboutthe year 1830, by crossing a Cotswold ram on a Hampshire-Down ewe,producing a sheep heavier than the Hampshire, resembling the Cotswoldin size and fleece, but finer and firmer in t

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