. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. l, which was of excel-lent quality. Now the stomach of London de-manded meat, more meat, always meat. TheEnglishman is beyond dispute the greatestmeat eater in the civilized world, while at thesame time he is a damiy j^o/inm-t. To do himjustice, he never hesitates to pay the priceof his meat, which is naturally an encourage-ment to the breeder. Bakewell saw his op-portunity and was ecjual to the task. Hecreated the new Leicester breed (sometimescalled the Dishley) from mating the oldLeicestershire race with the Herefordshire,L
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. l, which was of excel-lent quality. Now the stomach of London de-manded meat, more meat, always meat. TheEnglishman is beyond dispute the greatestmeat eater in the civilized world, while at thesame time he is a damiy j^o/inm-t. To do himjustice, he never hesitates to pay the priceof his meat, which is naturally an encourage-ment to the breeder. Bakewell saw his op-portunity and was ecjual to the task. Hecreated the new Leicester breed (sometimescalled the Dishley) from mating the oldLeicestershire race with the Herefordshire,Lincoln, and Teeswater races. The Teeswater sheep is the jsroduct ofvery rich pastures lying along the two banksof the river Tees. For a long time it wasone of the best known s])ecies. At two years of age the animal often supplied two hundredpounds of butchers meat. Towards Christmasof the year 1797 a ram of this race was slaugh-tered at Darlington-on-Tees, the four quartersof which weighed two hundred and fort\-ninepounds, with seventeen additional pounds of R.\M or ) Li:iri;sTi:u Brekd 176 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS This race is also very fruitful, the ewes givingbirth to two and sometimes three lambs this, however, it yielded to Bakewells newbreed, which it had materially assisted to form.
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