Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-03-24
Sheep with Large Tails.

volume pubhshed by Acrlnner U
Co., is the following description OF
the broad tails. and some remarka-
BILE references to thcm in Holy
Scripture:
"There are two breeds Of sheep
in Palestine. One much resembles
our ordinary English sheep, while
the other is 4 very different animal,
being to the ordinary sheep what
the greyhound is to the rough ter
rier. 1t is much taller on its legs,
larger boned, and long-nosed. On
" the rams have horns, and they
are not twisted spirally like those
Of our own sheep, but come back.
wards, aud then curl round so that
the point comes under the car
The great popularity Of this sheep
is the tail, which is simply prodi-
gious in point Of size, and is an
enormous mass Of fat. Indeed, the
long.legged and otherwise lean an
imal seems to concentrate all its fat
in the tail, which, as has been well
observed, appears to abstract both
flesh and fat from the rest of the
body. So great is this strange de
velopment, that the tail alone will
sometimes weigh one-ffth as much
as the entire animal. A similar
breed OF sheep is found in South
ern Africa and other parts Of the
world. In some places, the tail
grows to such an enormous size,
that, in order to keep so valuable
part Of the animal from injury, it is
fastened to a small board, support
cd by a couple of wheels, so that
the sheep literally wheels its own
tail in cart. 1t has been thought
by some systematic naturalists that
this variety is a distinct species, and
the broad tailed breeds Of sheep
have, in consequence, been distin-
guished by several names. For ex
ample, the present variety is called
OUis lQticaudatus by several au.
thors, 0Vts laticauda pIatycer0S,
by another, and 0Ufs cauda obeSa
by another. The broad tailed sheep
of Tartary is called Octs SeatOpyga.
Another author calls it OeiS ma.
orocerus; and the broad-tailed
sheep of Southern Africa is called |
Owls Capeasis. Yet they are in
reality one and the same variety of
the common domesticated sheep,
differing in some particulars ac-
cOrding to the conditions in which
they are placed, but having really
no specific distinction. 1t is, by
,he way, from the wool Of the un-
born broad tailed sheep that the
nuch-prized Astrachan fur Is made.
1.-THE various ScnpturaI writer's
leem never to have noticed the diff
erence between the breeds ofshecp
The names that are employed de-
loting the different ages and sexes
,r the sheep, but having no refer
enee to the breed,
"For example, the word Taleh'
signifies a very young sucking
amb, such as is mentioned in Sam
iii. 0: And samuel took a young
amb (Talch,) and offered it for a
,urnt offering wholly unto the
4ord,' The same word is used In
So. lxv. %: The wolf and the
umb (Taleh) shall feed together;
he force Of this wellknowm pas.
age being much increased by the
7ord 'taleh.' The Jewish Bible
enders the word as "a lamb Of
lilk.'
"The word 'kebes, or 'keves,
the being pronounced like the
anne letter in the word seven )sig.
ides a male lamb of a year or so
Id, the feminine being 'kebesah. -
When the young lamb was weancd,
nd was sent to pasture, 1t was call
d by another name, l. e, 'kat, this
,ord being evidently derived from a
10 Hebrew verb which signifies to
Kip. The adult ram is signifed by
ie word 'ayil,' or 'ail, and the eve
Y Fakal.' =
Frequent reference TO the fat of !
ie tail is made in the authorized /
ersion Of the Scriptures, though in I
,rms which would not be under
.ood did we not know that the
leep which is mentioned in those
lssages is the long-talled sheep of o
yria. See, for example, the histo- ), y
: narrated in Exod, xxx, 20, b
here special details are given as to p'
c ceremony by which Aaron and n
8 sons were consecrated to the n
iesthood. Thou shalt take OF n
9 ram tile fat and the rump, and q
e fat that coyereth the inwards, :"
ID the caul above the liver, and m
Q two kidneys, and the fat that is
ION them In the Jewish Bible --
c passage IL given with much
ore precision, Thou shalt take OF
G ram the fat, and the fat tail, \
,s The same rendering is used
Lev. III. 81 Ahd he shall offer
the sacrifice OF the feast offering
FIRE offering unto the Eternal
Q fat thereof, and the whole fat "
I shall be take of hard by the
Ickbone; and the fat that cover.
b the inwards, and all the fat that
upon tie inWards.1
"But though this particular breed q,
not very distinctly mentioned in Il
e Bible, the Talmudical writer's
We many allusions to Il. In the r
ischna these broad tailed sheep {
& not allowed 70 leave their folds