. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... rvine, farmer ofPolmoodie, a high exposed farm in the Moffatdistrict of Dumfriesshire, put Eskdale rams ofthe Whitefaced polled kind, the same with theCheviot breed, to his ewes of the horned Black-faced kfnd. He sold his wool in 1790 at six fleeces as against 6s. Zd. obtained forseven fleeces of the Blackfaces off the same pas-ture. At that time, however, Mr. Irvines ideasdid not commend themselves to his neigh
. The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ... rvine, farmer ofPolmoodie, a high exposed farm in the Moffatdistrict of Dumfriesshire, put Eskdale rams ofthe Whitefaced polled kind, the same with theCheviot breed, to his ewes of the horned Black-faced kfnd. He sold his wool in 1790 at six fleeces as against 6s. Zd. obtained forseven fleeces of the Blackfaces off the same pas-ture. At that time, however, Mr. Irvines ideasdid not commend themselves to his neighbours;but the writer above quoted says in a note(Statistical Account of Scotland, 1793): Thereis no doubt that the fine, close, short-wooUedbreed of sheep is the proper sort for a hillycountry, and that the wool may be brought, evenon the Moffat hills, to Is. 3d., nay, perhaps evento Is. 8d. per Introduced as they were, it is easily under-stood how the Cheviots of the earlier part of the19th century, especially perhaps in the westerndistricts of the south of Scotland, were some-what irregular in appearance. Some were polled,some had horns. Some had fine skins, some. CHE\IOT RAM- 3RD AT II. * SHOW, 1907; 1ST AND CHAMPION, NOKTHUMHKKLAND, DUiMFKHJS, ETC.
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