. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. 272 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LLFE. Sorrel CRumex acetosa). SOBHEL (Ruzaex acetosa). A garden vegetable, one of the staffs of life to the French peasantiy, but thought little of in this countiy. There is the round-leaved sorrel; but the best, most productive, and delicate, is re- puted to be the broai-leaved. SORREL, OR SOREL. Tliis name is applied to a buck of the third \
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. 272 ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LLFE. Sorrel CRumex acetosa). SOBHEL (Ruzaex acetosa). A garden vegetable, one of the staffs of life to the French peasantiy, but thought little of in this countiy. There is the round-leaved sorrel; but the best, most productive, and delicate, is re- puted to be the broai-leaved. SORREL, OR SOREL. Tliis name is applied to a buck of the third \"ear, and also to a particular colour in a horse. SOURKROUT. A dish made of cabbage, prepared in a particular way. SOUTHDOWN SHEEP. Southdown Sheep. Wilts ; the Berkshire Notts, from Berks; and the Dorset Horas, from Dorset. They were lilcewise propa- gated far into the Alidlaud and Eastern counties, and the late Mr. Jonas Webb, about a quarter of a centurj' ago, brought them to such perfection of size and weight on the better feeding grounds of Cambridgeshire as com- pletely to distance tlie renowned Sussex breeders, among whom the late Duke of Richmond will always command one of the first positions. With the rise of turnip-culture, however, the ex- tensive breaking up of the chalk downs and sheep runs generally, and the adop- tion of the quiclc-feeding system, a different kind of animal was extensivelv. This leading English breed that, from time immemorial, has existed on the Sussex range of chalk hills, was brought to a high state of perfection earlier than any other, their primary regenerator being the late Mr. Ellman, of GJynde, who first turned his attention to the matter about the year 1780. Arthur Young, in 1794, described !Mr. Ellman's flock as " the first in the country," and he had formidable competitors, for the improved breed was even at that time rapidly extcndingitself; andMr. Cullcy, in 1807, reported Mr. Ellman's flock as still having a superiori
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