. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Leicester Ram Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead inferior in quality to that of the old Hereford-shire breed. But for butchers meat this new THE SHEEP 177 Leicester breed carried tJTe day. Comparinga loin of it with that of a coarse Norfolk sheep,we found the latter nearly twice as fat and u. A Suffolk Raim heavy, while the former was covered with threetimes the amount of meat, —a matter to whichthe lover of mutton chops is not , who wrote upon this subject at theclose of the eighteenth centur\-,speaks of
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A Leicester Ram Photo J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead inferior in quality to that of the old Hereford-shire breed. But for butchers meat this new THE SHEEP 177 Leicester breed carried tJTe day. Comparinga loin of it with that of a coarse Norfolk sheep,we found the latter nearly twice as fat and u. A Suffolk Raim heavy, while the former was covered with threetimes the amount of meat, —a matter to whichthe lover of mutton chops is not , who wrote upon this subject at theclose of the eighteenth centur\-,speaks of sheep which were so fat,when two years and a half old,that they could scarcely walk. AtLitchfield he saw a fore quarterwith four inches of fat on the loins,and later he saw some with five andsix inches of fat. This fattening acts uponthe flesh, which becomes impreg-nated with it, while the sinewy tis-sue diminishes. Thus a piece of theloin with the kidney, weighing,Marshall says, twenty-six pounds,had only two and a half pounds ofmeat. One must have the Englishtaste, or else acquire it, to think suchmeat good ; but it is certain thatmutton cannot be too fat for anEnglishman. To a man of smallmeans mutton fat, which can take the place oflard, has its advantages. Bakewells success soon became generallyknown in England, and he cleverly made t
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