Farmers' Bulletin, Ausgabe 576

American Merinos appearance belly wool blocky body Border Leicester bred breed of sheep breeders prefer breeding habit characteristic Cheviot class includes class of sheep close fleece coarse coarser color from brown color of face Cotswold covered with wool Delaine desired Dorset early ears English Leicester extra length face and legs face is sometimes farm farmers feed FIGURE fine-wool sheep fineness flock found to thrive Hampshire head hind quarter hornless illustration shows lambs for market lambs grow lambs produced large-framed larger breeds leg color leg covering legs are white length of wool less heavily fleshed Lincoln LONG-WOOL BREEDS mature MEDIUM-WOOL BREEDS medium-wool class milking qualities mothers and milkers MUTTON AND WOOL mutton breeds mutton qualities number of lambs Oxford purebred raisers Rambouillet rams and ewes ringlets Romney Marsh sell sheep raising Shropshire Southdown starting into sheep Suffolk Tunis typical usually varies weight winter lambs Wool production wrinkles