. Sheep, their breeding and management. Oxfords exhibited wereof a uniform brown shade. In the early days of the Oxfords the carcaseweight of these sheep was thought satisfactory if,at from 13 to 15 months old, it came up to 76 Wrightson says that, nowadays, an improvedHampshire-Down, from a good flock, should weighfrom 85 to 95 pounds, carcase-weight, at tenmonths, and that without forcing ; and that atBritford fair, on August 12th, wether lambs are of-ten seen to fetch 60s. ($) a head, he himselfhaving sold 100 on that day, in 1883, for 73s. each-($) ; but prices for meat
. Sheep, their breeding and management. Oxfords exhibited wereof a uniform brown shade. In the early days of the Oxfords the carcaseweight of these sheep was thought satisfactory if,at from 13 to 15 months old, it came up to 76 Wrightson says that, nowadays, an improvedHampshire-Down, from a good flock, should weighfrom 85 to 95 pounds, carcase-weight, at tenmonths, and that without forcing ; and that atBritford fair, on August 12th, wether lambs are of-ten seen to fetch 60s. ($) a head, he himselfhaving sold 100 on that day, in 1883, for 73s. each-($) ; but prices for meat, at that date, werehigher than they are now, though at present pricesa 96 lbs. lamb—more properly teg—would be worth72s. What used to take 13 to 15 months to bringabout is now done in 8 or 10, for the modernprinciple seems to be to feed the land by feedingthe sheep, instead of using so much artificials, andthe quantity of cake and pulse and grain given tothe flock is something that would make the Cul-leys and the Bakewells Shropshire Shearling-ewes (Hillhurst flock.) CHAPTER IV SHROPSHIRES TTtTHEN first we made acquaintance with the Shrop-shires — Shropshire-Downs they were thencalled, which w-as a mistake, as there is no suchthing as a dozvn in the old county — it was at afarm close to the town of Shrewsbury, the capitalof the Shire, belonging to a Mr. Beach, in those daysa noted breeder of these sheep, which were then,1852, just beginning to win a high position in theEnglish country exhibitions. The history of the Shropshires is rather There are two old breeds on which the pre-sent Shropshires were engrafted. Oddly enough,too, these old breeds are natives of the two extremepoints of the West Midlands, Cannock Chase at theeastern, and Clun Forest at the western extremity. Several decades ago, there were developed greatindustries in coal and iron at Wellington, Coalport,and other districts in Shropshire. Wolverhampton,simultaneously, largely incre
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