. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. R.\M or ) Li:iri;sTi:u Brekd 176 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS This race is also very fruitful, the ewes givingbirth to two and sometimes three lambs this, however, it yielded to Bakewells newbreed, which it had materially assisted to Ready to Start for the Paris Exhibition The tuft on shoulder shows length of wool Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead The old Lincolnshire race was very coarse,very bony, very sluggish, and was not fit tokill until it was three years old, by which timeits meat was tough and not succul
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. R.\M or ) Li:iri;sTi:u Brekd 176 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS This race is also very fruitful, the ewes givingbirth to two and sometimes three lambs this, however, it yielded to Bakewells newbreed, which it had materially assisted to Ready to Start for the Paris Exhibition The tuft on shoulder shows length of wool Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead The old Lincolnshire race was very coarse,very bony, very sluggish, and was not fit tokill until it was three years old, by which timeits meat was tough and not succulent,—littleto the taste of the English gourmet. Bakewells new Leicester breed, whichis the product of very careful selection andmating, has by degrees superseded the fore-going. He and other well-known Britishbreeders have not hesitated to propagateamong animals of the same family whenthey thought it wise to do so. They startedwith the true idea that in the hands of skill-ful breeders, animals are as malleable asdough. They believed that by laying downfixed rules to a fixed end, and by regulatingfood and regimen efficaciously, they couldtransform breeds, especially those of sheep,as they pleased. To obtain rapidly a relatively large num-ber of animals having the same qualities (toserve as the basis of gre
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