Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . CHEVIOT EWE. cold and feeding on coarse heathery herbage. A ttoss with the Leices-ter, pretty generally resorted to, constitutes the improved variety. Ihecharacteristics of the Leicester are quite evident in the portrait of tlieCheviot Ewe, above, copied from Mr. Youatt, Professor Low thus speaks of the result of this cross : The Cheviot breed nmnlganiales with the Leicester, and a system of breeding has beenextensively inti-oduced for
Sheep husbandry; with an account of different breeds, and general directions in regard to summer and winter management, breeding and the treatment of diseases . CHEVIOT EWE. cold and feeding on coarse heathery herbage. A ttoss with the Leices-ter, pretty generally resorted to, constitutes the improved variety. Ihecharacteristics of the Leicester are quite evident in the portrait of tlieCheviot Ewe, above, copied from Mr. Youatt, Professor Low thus speaks of the result of this cross : The Cheviot breed nmnlganiales with the Leicester, and a system of breeding has beenextensively inti-oduced for producing the first cross of this descent. The rams employed areof the pure Leicester breed, and the progeny is superior in size, weight of wool, and tenden-cy to fiitten, to the native Clieviot. . .The itenefit, however, may be said to end with thefirst cross, and the progeny of this mixed descent is greatly inferior to the pure Leicesterin fonn and fattening properties, and to the pure Cheviot in hardiness of constitution. Of the imjn-oved Cheviot Mr. Spooner says : This breed has gi-eatly extended itself throughout the mountains of Scotland, and in
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