. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. The Shower Bath THE SHEEP 175. SlIKlCr liATHS long produced a stout sheep suitable for butcher-ing. A neighboring breed, the Herefordshire,was also stoutly and heavily made, with a largehead and strong, bony structure ; but it waschiefly valued for its wool, which was of excel-lent quality. Now the stomach of London de-manded meat, more meat, always meat. TheEnglishman is beyond dispute the greatestmeat eater in the civilized world, while at thesame time he is a damiy j^o/inm-t. To do himjustice, he never hesitates to pay the
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. The Shower Bath THE SHEEP 175. SlIKlCr liATHS long produced a stout sheep suitable for butcher-ing. A neighboring breed, the Herefordshire,was also stoutly and heavily made, with a largehead and strong, bony structure ; but it waschiefly valued for its wool, which was of excel-lent quality. Now the stomach of London de-manded meat, more meat, always meat. TheEnglishman is beyond dispute the greatestmeat eater in the civilized world, while at thesame time he is a damiy j^o/inm-t. To do himjustice, he never hesitates to pay the priceof his meat, which is naturally an encourage-ment to the breeder. Bakewell saw his op-portunity and was ecjual to the task. Hecreated the new Leicester breed (sometimescalled the Dishley) from mating the oldLeicestershire race with the Herefordshire,Lincoln, and Teeswater races. The Teeswater sheep is the jsroduct ofvery rich pastures lying along the two banksof the river Tees. For a long time it wasone of the best known s])ecies. At two years of age the animal often supplied two hundredp
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