 | Agriculture - 1840 - 550 pages
...horizontally forward ; the eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression, and not placed far asunder; the ears thin, rather long, and directed backwards...tapering towards the head, and being particularly line at the junction of the head and neck ; the neck seeming to project straight from the chest, so... | |
 | Daniel Pereira Gardner - Agriculture - 1846 - 898 pages
...should be hornless, long, small, tapering towards the muzzle, and projecting horizontally forward. The eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression. The ears thin, rather long, and directed backward ; the neck full and broad at its base, but gradually tapering towards the head, and particularly... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1862 - 698 pages
...should be hornless, long, small, tapering towards the muzzle, and projecting horizontally forward. The eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression. The ears thin, rather long, and directed backward. The neck full and broad at its base, where it proceeds from the chest, so that there is,... | |
 | Henry Judson Canfield - Sheep - 1853 - 410 pages
...form of the carcass." The various points of the Leicester sheep have been thus correctly described : " The head should be hornless, long, small, tapering...tapering towards the head, and being particularly tine at the junction of the head and neck — the neck seeming to project straight from the chest,... | |
 | William Lewis Rham - Agriculture - 1855 - 522 pages
...by Mr. Culley will, to a very considerable degree, serve for all the varieties of the long-woolled sheep. The head should be hornless, long, small, tapering...directed backwards : the neck full and broad at its base, but gradually tapering towards the head, and particularly fine at the junction of the head and neck.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Sheep - 1856 - 492 pages
...The eyes prominent, but with n quiet expression. The ears thiii, rather long, and directed backward. The neck full and broad at its base, where it proceeds from the chest, so that there is, with the slightest possible deviation, one continued horizontal line from the rump... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Rare books - 1860 - 348 pages
...head should be hornless, long, small, tapering toward the muzzle, and projecting horizontally forward. The eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression. The ears thin, rather long, and directed backward. The neck fall and broad at its base, where it proceed! from the chest, so that there is,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1861 - 970 pages
...long, small, tapering towards the muzzle and projecting horizontally forward and perfectly white ; the eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression ;...long and directed backwards ; the neck full and broad where it proceeds from the chest ; the breast broad and full ; the shoulders broad and round ; no rising... | |
 | Massachusetts Agricultural College - Agricultural education - 1861 - 608 pages
...long, small, tapering towards the muzzle and projecting horizontally forward and perfectly white ; the eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression ;...long and directed backwards ; the neck full and broad where it proceeds from the chest ; the breast broad aud full ; the shoulders broad and round ; no rising... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 734 pages
...The eyes prominent, but with a quiet expression. The eare thin, rather long, and directed backward. The neck full and broad at its base, where it proceeds from the chest, so that there is, with the slightest possible elevation, one continued horizontal line from the rump... | |
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... from the chest, so that there is, with the slightest possible deviation, one continued horizontal line from the rump to the poll. The breast broad and... 
