. Sheep, their breeding and management. tell a Lincolnshire man so, for Irecollect some years ago a young Lincolnshirefarmer, at Sorely who was very anxious to send, onhis return to England, a few Lincoln ewes and aram to begin a flock of that breed in that notor-iously poor sandy spot! The highest prices paid for rams of late or, indeed,at any time, have been paid for Lincolns, a ram ofthe breed having been sold for a thousand guineas,$5,, only last year ! He was bred, if mymemory serves me, by Mr. Dudding of Riby. I have not heard of late of any Border-Leicestersbeing
. Sheep, their breeding and management. tell a Lincolnshire man so, for Irecollect some years ago a young Lincolnshirefarmer, at Sorely who was very anxious to send, onhis return to England, a few Lincoln ewes and aram to begin a flock of that breed in that notor-iously poor sandy spot! The highest prices paid for rams of late or, indeed,at any time, have been paid for Lincolns, a ram ofthe breed having been sold for a thousand guineas,$5,, only last year ! He was bred, if mymemory serves me, by Mr. Dudding of Riby. I have not heard of late of any Border-Leicestersbeing kept in this province, but I remember a smallflock of them, in 1870, being on the hands of thelate Mr. Thomas Irving, of Petite Cote, on the — 35 — island of Montreal. If I do not mistake, the lateJudge Ramsay had some of them, for I remembera long-legged brute of a ram, that could jump likea well-bred hunter, and who knocked me over (frombehind !) when I was at the Judges place at St-Hugues. The breed, however, was in high favour. mmm in the counties of Cumberland and Northumberland,and came out well at the last meeting at Windsorof the Royal Agricultural Society of England. -36- The Border-Leicesters owe their imptoved stateto the Culleys, who farmed on an immense scale atWooler, Northumberland, paying rent for theirseveral farms to the amount of ^6,000 or $30,!At that time, 1767, the long-legged, rough-woolledTees-Water was the chief breed of that county, butthe new Leicesters, brought from Dishley by theCulleys, soon made a change in the appearance andquality of the flocks. In 1888, Ivord Polwarth soldfrom the Mertoun flock 28 shearling rams for anaverage of ^36. 9 s. 3 d., and one for 165 guineas,or $ and $ ; in 1890, the Mertounrams averaged £^2)t ^9 s- 4 d., or $ COTSWOLD Unlike most of the long-wools, the Cotswoldseems to have early taken a fancy to the bleakestrange of hills in the West-midlands of from the River Severn, th
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