Identifier: sheeptheirbreedi00jenn (find matches)
Title: Sheep, their breeding and management
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Jenner-Fust, A. R
Subjects: Sheep
Publisher: Quebec, Dussault
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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on poorkeep and amply repay his owner for any extra foodbestowed upon him ; in fact, if I were not AlexanderI would be Diogenes ; that is, if I were farming, andcould not get Hampshire-Downs to breed from, Iwould take up with Shropshires. SUFFOLK DOWNS Any one travelling through the Eastern countiesof England, from London to Norwich, in the earlythirties must have observed, unless the deadlydulness of the country sent him to sleep, on theborders between Suffolk and Norfolk, a number ofdark-coloured, rough, long-legged sheep feedingabout on the barren heaths that border on the twocounties. They were the first «wild-sheep », so tospeak, I had ever seen, so it is no wonder that,accustomed as I was to the smoother, morecomfortable-looking flocks of the Southern coun-ties, the Suffolk Health-sheep should have fixedthemselves ineradicably in my mind. How great — 71 — was my astonishment, then, to see by the reports ofthe Royals meeting, a few years ago, that these SmX^ ___^,.;^>^^i
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-^^^mm^ rough, aboriginal sheep, had been so far improvedthat they had not only been taken up by some of theleading breeders of East-Anglia, but that, owing I — 72 — believe to the exertions of the late Marquis of Bristol,the Suifolk-Down had been admitted to a place inthe Royals annual exhibition. Arthur Young, in his tour, mentions these sheep,and from his account it would seem that, as longago as 1790, they were considered to afford excellentmutton, though the wool can never have been goodfor much. However, as far as I can learn, nothaving the flock book at hand, there are six volumesof it extant ; the Southdown has been the greatmedium of the improvement of the Suffolk ; butwhither have the horns vanished ? for horns theycertainly had when I saw them 65 years ago. The Suffolk Sheep-Society thus describes theSuffolk ; according to the points laid down by thebest judges of the district : « Head hornless ; face black and long with areasonably fine muzzle, especially in the ewe ;

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