. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . m three and a half to five pounds perfleece: and the carcass averaging eighteen pounds per quarter, of excel-lent mutton. They are a hardy race, being chiefly bred on open downs,and inured to the fold; but their principal value consist-in ihe peculiar for-wardness of the ewes, which take the ram at a much earlier period thanany other species, and are therefore much
. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . m three and a half to five pounds perfleece: and the carcass averaging eighteen pounds per quarter, of excel-lent mutton. They are a hardy race, being chiefly bred on open downs,and inured to the fold; but their principal value consist-in ihe peculiar for-wardness of the ewes, which take the ram at a much earlier period thanany other species, and are therefore much sought for, and command highprices for the purpose of producing house-lamb for winter consumption. The polled sheep may be divided into two classes—the long, and theshort woolled—the peculiar merits of which have for many years formeda subject of discussion among agriculturalists. Each has valuable pro-perties, and efforts have been made to blend them by crosses, but with-out complete success : nature seems to have intended them for differentsoils, and the short woolled breeds, which thrive upon the bleakest hill*.degenerate when removed into rich pastures, which are alone capable ofmaintaining the long woolled THE LEICESTER SHEEP. VI. The Leicester sheep take the lead among the long-woolledhind:and of these there are three nearly distinct species:—1. The Forestsheep: 2. The Old Leicester; 3. The New Leicester or Dishleij Breed—portrayed above—which are an improved kind of the latter forms are handsome ; color white. Their heads are clean andsmall, their necks short, and their breasts full; their bodies are round,with broad, straight backs, but the bellies rather light, or tucked up :their legs and the whole bone are fine and particularly small in propor-tion to their size ; their pelts thin, and the wool long and fine of it-kind, generally averaging seven pounds to the fleece. They are of aquiet .disposition, fatten early and kindly, and are c
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