. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . X. The Devonshire polled sheep form two distinct varieties of thesame breed:— 1. The South Devon or Dim-faced Nott, with brown face and legs; acrooked-backed, flat-sided, coarsely-boned and woolled animal, carrying a ENCYCLOPEDIA 95 THE SOUTH-DOWN SHEEP, fleece of 10 lbs. average weight, and averaging 22 lbs. per quarter ofgood mutton, at thirty months old. 2. The B
. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . X. The Devonshire polled sheep form two distinct varieties of thesame breed:— 1. The South Devon or Dim-faced Nott, with brown face and legs; acrooked-backed, flat-sided, coarsely-boned and woolled animal, carrying a ENCYCLOPEDIA 95 THE SOUTH-DOWN SHEEP, fleece of 10 lbs. average weight, and averaging 22 lbs. per quarter ofgood mutton, at thirty months old. 2. The Bampton Nott, with white face and legs, though in other re-spects nearly resembling the former in appearance; but the wethers will,at twenty months old, average as much weight of carcass as the othersat thirty ; and if kept on for another year, will reach, when fat, as muchas 28 lbs. per quarter: they are not, however, equally productive of wool;for at the first period they only yield about 6* lbs., and at the latter 9 lbs. Another variety of long-woolled sheep is found on the Cotswold Hillsto which most of the remarks already made on the Devon breeds willequally apply. The chief of the short-woolled polled breeds, are—. THE SOUTH-DOWN SHEEP. XL The South-down, of which the specific characters are,—Facesand legs gray ; bones fine ; head clean; neck long and small; low before ;shoulder wide; light in the fore quarter; sides and chest deep ; loinbroad; back bone rather too high; thigh full, and twist good; wool very-fine and short, (the staple being from two to three inches in length.)weighing an average of two pounds and a half per fleece, when killed attwo years old. Flesh fine grained, and of excellent flavor; quick feed-ers ; constitution hardy and vigorous. They are round in the generalappearance of the barrel; and, from standing wide on their hind legs,and being shut well in the twist, the leg of down mutton is remarkablyround and short, not only cutting handsomely for
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