Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . and that, too, without the admixture of the slightest degree of foreignblood. In our remarks on this breed of sheep, it will be understood thatwe speak of the pure improved family, as the original stock, presenting,with trifling modifications, the same characteristics which they exhibitedflixty years since, .are yet to be found in England—and as the middlospace is occupied by a variety of grades, rising or falling in value, as theyap
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of . and that, too, without the admixture of the slightest degree of foreignblood. In our remarks on this breed of sheep, it will be understood thatwe speak of the pure improved family, as the original stock, presenting,with trifling modifications, the same characteristics which they exhibitedflixty years since, .are yet to be found in England—and as the middlospace is occupied by a variety of grades, rising or falling in value, as theyapproximate to or recede from the improved blood. The South-Down is an upland sheep, of medium size, and its wool,which in point of length belongs t:; the middle class, has been estimatedto rank with half-blood Merino, and was so estimated in my Report, quo- • Now about 35 years since. i YouaK a Shepp, p. lia SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOUTH. 145 rations from which constitute so large a portion of this Letter. But bothBubsequent experience, and information derived from other sources, haveconvinced me of the err/^neousness of this opinion. South-Down wool is.
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