Live St och.-~-Shecp-^Romn ty~. Marjh Breed Defcripf ion of. 



requiring fo much longer time and richer keep, and being admitted in fo much 

 fmaller proportion on the acre, they are probably not upon the whole fo profita 

 ble, even in fituations \vhere they can be kept with the mofl chance of fuccefs, as 

 the fmaller more quick feeding breeds. 



The ewes of this breed are however, in general, very prolific, moftly bringing 

 two and frequently three lambs each. And in fome cafes a greater number have 

 been produced.* 



Improvements have been made in this breed by eroding with the new Leiceffers. 

 Jr is a breed that is however very feldom found pure. 



This is a fort of flieep that has been greatly neglected, but which, if judicioufly 

 improved by eroding, it is fuppofed would anfwerand pay well in diftricts proper 

 for its fupport. It is fuggefted by Mr. Parkinfon, in the Corrected Report of 

 the State of Agriculture in the Weft Riding of Yorkfhire, that an ufeful kind is 

 capable of being raifed by eroding the ewes of this breed with Difhley rams, in 

 the management of an expert breeder- Indeed, by the ufe of thefe, and thofe 

 of the Northumberland kind, the quality of the wool and the mutton has not 

 only been greatly improved, but the quantity of bone and offal much lefTened; 

 and,, at the fame time, the fattening property confiderably increafed ; they becom 

 ing fatter at two- years old than the others are at three. The wethers of this 

 improved fort generally fell unfhorn at two years old, from 45 to 55.8. apiece, and 

 weigh from twenty-four to thirty pounds the quarter. )- 



The Rwwey-MarJh breed of fheep is without horns ; white faces and legs ; rather 

 long in the legs; good fiz,e ;.body rather long, but well barrel- maped ; bones rather 

 large. Weight per quarter in fat wethers at two years old^from 22lbs-. to 28lbs. 

 Wool finei long, and of a^delicate white colour. 



This breed has the quality of arriving at the date of fatnefs at an early age, as 

 well as that of producing a large fleece of fine long combing wool, which ren, 

 dersit highly valuable. But from the fize, and the circumftance of the heavinefs, 

 of the coat, itis only, capable of being kept and fattened on the rich kinds of. paf- 

 ture : in fuch fituations it is,, however, an excellent breed,.. 



On the rich marm lands from Haftings .to Rye, the graziers find this breed much 

 more advantageous than the South Down ; the marm wethers fattening mor? 

 quickly.^ The wool afforded by. this breed of. flieep is moftly large in quan-, 



* Culley on Live Stock. + Corre^led Report of North Riding of Yorkfhire, 



J Young s Eaftern Tour, iok III, . Suflex Jleportj -ito. 



