LINCOLN SHEEP.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 4

LINCOLN SHEEP.

The Lincoln sheep are comparatively a rare breed in the United States. They are the largest breed known, under exceptional circumstances dressing up to ninety pounds per quarter. At two years old, they aTe recorded to have dressed 160 pounds. They require good care, and plenty of sncoulent food. They have been introduced into some sections of the West and into Canada, and are reported as being well liked, but further time is needed to fully establish their complete adaptability to our Western climate. Other long-woolled sheep, as the Cotswold and the larger of the Downs, are giving good satisfaction, and there seems no good reason why these will not on our flush pastures with gome suooulent food in winter do exceedingly well. In England fourteen pounds of wool average has been sheared as a first dip from a lot of thirty yearlings wethers, the same averaging 140 pounds eaoh, live weight, at fourteen months old. They have been known in the United States sinoe 1835, and their long lustrous fleeoes, messuring nine inches in length, are the perfection of combing wool. The Linoolns, originally, were large, ooarse, and with ragged oily fleeces, and hard feeders The improved Linoolns were made by judicious orosses of Leicester rams, careful seleotion and good feeding, and in England their wool has now a separate class at the fairs.