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are favourable for sheep-breeders, the men who occupy these 

 exhausted soils cannot take advantage of them. Under such 

 circumstances complaints are only to be expected, but they 

 are happily exceptional, and certainly are not likely to be 

 repeated by the many sheep farmers who duly keep up the 

 condition of their land by a rational system of management. 



SHEEP SOCIETIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



National Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Shropshire Shtep Breeders' Associatioti and Flock Book Society. 



Suffolk Sheep Society. 



Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Southdown Sheep Society. 



Lincoln Longwoal Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Hampshire Down Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Cotswold Sheep Society. 



Dorset Horn Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Kent or Romney Marsh Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Cheviot Sheep Society. 



Lonk Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock Book Society. 



Leicester Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Ryeland Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock BDO!C Society. 



Incorporated Wensleydale Bluefaced Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock 



Book Society. 



Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeders' Association. 

 Society of Border Leicester Sheep Breeders. 

 Roscommon Sheep Breeders' Association. 

 Devon Long-woolled Sheep Breeders' Society. 



Kerry Hill (Wales) Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock Book Society. 

 South Devon Flock Book Association. 

 Dartmoor Sheep Breeders' and Flock Book Association. 

 Dorset Down Sheep Breeders' Association. 



Welsh Mountain Sheep Breeders' Association and Flock Book Society. 

 Exraoor Horn Sheep Breeders' Society. 

 Black-Face Sheep Breeders' Association. 

 Derbyshire Gritstone Sheep Breeders' Society. 



[For names and addresses of Secretaries of Societies (which change from 

 time to time) see the LIVE STOCK JOURNAL ALMANAC, published annually by 

 Vinton and Co., Ltd., 8, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, E.C.] 



