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REARING AND FEEDING OF ANIMALS. 



the same breed. 1. The south Devon or dim-faced-nott, with 

 brown face and legs crooked backed flat-sided coarsely 

 boned and wooled carrying a fleece of ten pounds average 

 weight, and averaging twenty-two pounds per quarter of good 

 mutton, at thirty months old. 2. The Bumpton Nott, white 

 face and legs, and in other respects nearly resembling the 

 former in appearance; will yield as much mutton at twenty as 

 the other at thirty months, but not equally productive of wool.* 

 They formed a clumsy racf* of thick skins; but they are nearly 

 extinct in their pure state, having been almost universally 

 crossed by the new Leicesters. 



To these breeds might be added others which may be rather 

 said to have once existed, than to be now found. Such were 

 the old Warwickshire, the wool of which resembled that of 

 the new Leicester the old Leicester, which is merged in the 

 modern breed, and the old Teeswater, which in like manner 

 has had its characters entirely modified by the effects of cross- 

 ing. These last were a very large race of sheep, arriving at 

 great weight, very prolific in lambs, producing wool long and 

 heavy to the fleece. They formerly existed in the greatest 

 purity in the district of the Tees. 



THE NEW LEICESTER. 



The new Leicester, portrayed above, is frequently termed 

 the Dishley breed, from having been produced by RoctRT 

 * Complete Grazier, p. 221. 



