Identifier: agricultureancie01copl (find matches)
Title: Agriculture, ancient and modern: a historical account of its principles and practice, exemplified in their rise, progress, and development
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Copland, Samuel
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, Virtue and company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Culley, who was contem-porary with Bakewell, and adopted his plans on the farm at Fenton, near Wooler, statesthat in crossing them with the Teeswater breed one-third of the ewes produce twins.Where, however, the Dishley sheep were kept high they were very uncertain breeders. * On askiDg a butchers wife at Berry, in Suffolk, sajs Culley, how she sold mutton ? /we pence a pound,sir! answered she, smartly. And pray, 1 replied, rather surprised at the high price, have you no mutton below fivepence ? Oh yes, sir! rejoins the honest woman, plenty of Lincolnshire at four pence ; but we do not account itmutton wheu compared with our Norfolk and Suffolk mutton. And if I may be allowed to give my opinion, theywould neither of them be accouuted mutton in many markets, even further north in this island; the Lincolnshire onaccount of its coarseness, the other on account of the thiuness. Culley w;is in error as regards the Norfolk sheep, whichcertainly, however unprofitable, were excellent mutton.
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THE SHEEP. 397 The writer had an instance of this on the farm occupied by his father. He had pur-chased a pure New Leicester ram at a high price, and it certainly was as beautiful ananimal as was ever produced; but being put to fifty selected Southdown ewes, the pro-duce was one weak Iamb ! Consequently Mr. Leicester/ as the shepherd styled him,was consigned to the butcher, and the fifty selected ewes, less one, were also fattened forthe same destination. This tendency, however, did not prevent Bakewell from lettinghis rams at high prices. Four hundred guineas for the season was no uncommon price ;and on one occasion he took in eighty ewes, at 10 guineas each, to be put to one ram,besides forty of his own ewes, so that, reckoning the latter at the same price, he received1,200 guineas for this one ram for that season. His common price was from 200 to■100 guineas. The New Leicesters are a tender bieed, and will not thrive on a coarse or scantypasture, nor would the lambs endure the ha

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