Show THE SHEEP History and Description of This Pop There are many western who consider the Rambouillet pro pronounced sheep to be the best for an breed and itis fast becoming the most pop popular ular to cross with the Rocky mountain merinos both for the of the wool and mutton qualities of the native sheep A brief history of the is given by Dr Galea Wilson in the Practical Farmer as fol loiss loissIn In the king of France a bunch of Spanish sheep from royal flocks in Spain They wre selected from ten flocks which had al always ways been separate and hene thre were ten different strains of blood with no immediate family relation hi tween them The object of the Fremb king was to grow fine wool and up better and larger sheep than the which were small as r all Spanish Merinos These shep were taken to the extensive domain i estate formerly belonging to the Mar hence the name of the sheep They have bred there ever years by the most capable experts that uld be found An American writer 5 sheen has said When I visited Ram Rambouillet bouillet in 1891 and saw the environ of these sheep under the direction of M La and knew that over years of just such manage meat hai been In progress I n wondered that the style beautiful form graceful carriage size and choicest wool are in highest possible degree of t is not unusual for the rams t 20 to pounds the ewes Th and shear 10 per cent of their weight of dense fine long wol AtUt the year 1800 and subsequently sheep were brought from Spain t rhe United States and some have 5 to South America Africa Au and other countries in all f which more or less effort ha hamade made to breed them up to and still the fineness he wool fiber increase its length ani weight to weight of ar aS but little progress in these has been made elsewhere than in ratI The reason is obvious Other endeavored to breed up front on strain of sheep at a PiU livestock knoW hW every breeder of difficult that is on account breeding among the same t Sheep seem to be more breI of close the adverse influence lug than any other species of But France had the same as by SE of different breeds to breed and still every rino blood but no family the So far as my knowledge French in their breeding up hal fl mixture of the blood of been but even if they did they have breeding in the larger Merin long that the type Is Tb dation of their first bunch of al altage gave the French an has a tage besides their dtP tIe ways been under government after and as one expert breeder had other died the government to take the experts in training those who out of the The life f fan 55 for any cause an is long enough to ge the French government h itt Length of pedigree Is of great animals The extends back over can fl tury and their prepotencY be doubted or excelled |