. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. pecies of the Shropshire BreedPhoto J. T. Newman, Bevkhampstea d although, like them, they inhabit the plains andhillsides of a great part of Europe and is a great difference, however, in thecharacter of those plains ; the moorland sheep live on sandy soil, while theEnglish-bred sheep are theproduct of a rich, loamy,calcareous land. England isespecially fitted for the forma-tion of such a race, partly byreason of its soft and temper-ate climate, and partly becauseof its many beautiful and fer-tile meadows and the
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. pecies of the Shropshire BreedPhoto J. T. Newman, Bevkhampstea d although, like them, they inhabit the plains andhillsides of a great part of Europe and is a great difference, however, in thecharacter of those plains ; the moorland sheep live on sandy soil, while theEnglish-bred sheep are theproduct of a rich, loamy,calcareous land. England isespecially fitted for the forma-tion of such a race, partly byreason of its soft and temper-ate climate, and partly becauseof its many beautiful and fer-tile meadows and the rollingdowns of the south andeast; and also, and above all,by reason of the practical goodsense that characterizes theEnglishman in general and theEnglish breeder in history of these sheepdoes not date back very was not until the secondhalf of the eighteenth centurythat their excellent qualities came to be gener-ally known, thanks to a breeder named Bake-well, who died in 1799. Bakewell lived inLeicestershire, where the soil and climate had. The Shower Bath THE SHEEP 175
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