. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. white legs and faces, the wool growing close to their eyes. The carcass is tolerably well formed, weighing from 10 to 18
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. white legs and faces, the wool growing close to their eyes. The carcass is tolerably well formed, weighing from 10 to 18 lbs. a quarter, and bearing very fine short wool, from 1| to 2§ lbs. a fleece : the mutton is excellent. The store or keeping sheep of this breed are put into cots at night, winter and sum. mer, and in winter foddered in racks with peas-straw, barley-straw, &c., and in very bad weather with hay. These cots are low buildings, quite covered over, and made to contain from one to five hundred sheep, ac- cording to the size of the farm or flock kept. The true Hereford^iire breed .are frequently Ryeland sheep, from the land formerly being thought capable of jjrodueing no better grain than rye; but which now yields every kind of grain. A cross between this breed and the merinos was extensively cultivated by the late Dr. Parry, of Bath, an eminent wool-grower, and promoter of agricultural improvement. 7130. The South Doirn sheep {fig. f-87.) are without horns : they have dark or black-grey faces and legs, fine bones, long small necks ; are low before, high on the shoulder, and light in the fore quarter; the sides are good, and tlie loin tolerably broad, back-bone too high, the thigh full, and twist good. The fleece is very short and fine, weighing from 2J to 3 lbs. The average weight of two years old wethers is about IS lbs. per quarter, the mutton fine in the grain, and of an excellent flavour. These sheep have been brought to a high state of improvement by Elman, of Gly
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