SHEEP AND STAMPS.
Have you ever seen a sheep on a postage stamp The more or less new centenary stump of the Falkland Islands "features," as they say, a length drawing of one of the most characteristic English sheep which has enjoyed a busy export trade. This Philippine Romney Marsh ram, in black against a green background, has a magnificent fleece, but his points emerge clearly from the picture of the skilled artist, who must be also a farmer. That neat and ingeniously-edited paper, Farm, Pith! and Fireside, has been making some sort of inquest into the farm animals which have found their way on to stamps. It has discovered horses, cattle and even wild boar, but not a single sheep. It is in the back of my memory that I have seen the bust of Merino with rolling ruffs- of wool framing the head, but can discover no direct evidence. Is this -Romney Marsh, a magnificent advertise- ment for the breed, enjoying a unique glory ?
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