An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 -jii appears to be some diii'erence in the accounts that hav
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic 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 encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 -jii appears to be some diii'erence in the accounts that have ^ ^--^h^- been preserved, in regard to the places whence they were ~ originally brought, and to the persons who introduced them. {Culley mi Live StocI;, p. 32, and Marshal's Economy of ilic Midland Counties, vol. i. p. 306.) Mar- shal, under too confined a view, and probably prejudiced against the breed on account of its fancied want of spirit, as well as for the alleged tendency to become flat and pommiced in the feet, is most unreasonably severe on it, when he says, ' the breed of guy , with which this island has of late years been overrun, are not a greater pest in it than the breed of black fen horses; at least while cattle remain scarce as they are at present, and while the flesh of horses remains to be rejected as an article of human food.' {Marshars Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. Ifii.) The present improved sub-variety of this breed is said to have taken its rise in six Zealand mares, sent over from the Hague by the late Lord Chesterfield, during his embassy at that court. SS,i\. The Cleveland bays [fig. 82-t.), which owe some of their most valuable properties to crosses with the race-horse, have been long celebrated as one of the best breeds in the island; but they are said to have rB,« t 11 r t^^- 'â ^^'' ''â ^ reared to a great extent in Yorkshire, the farmers of which county are remarKable for their knowledge in every thing that relates to this species of l
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