122 MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



neer in the improvement of the Welsh Mountain sheep. He has 

 given me my pick of a lot of good photographs for use in your 

 book, which I mail you. 



"Now, with regard to an ordinary Welsh flock, I think you 

 know pretty well how these are run. They are ranged, as you say 

 in America, on the mountains. 



"Mr. Williams, with whom I am staying, has a very fertile 

 farm of 250 acres in the Valley of the Dee, which, of course, he 

 farms in an up-to-date manner that is, in his methods of crop- 

 ping, etc. The Dee Valley is very narrow here, but is very rich 

 la-nd. With this he has also 400 acres unenclosed mountain land 

 heather, not fenced upon which he runs some 800 to 1,000 



Welsh Mountain Ram. Williams Type. 



sheep in summer. The first of November all these sheep are 

 brought down from the mountain to the valley and wintered. 

 Sometimes he has to rent winter quarters that is, he pays about 

 two shillings and sixpence (something like fifty cents) for graz- 

 ing hoggets elsewhere for the winter. Some of his two-year-old 

 wethers he leaves out on the mountain all winter. His sheep 

 wold is situated in the mountains about four miles on the Berwyn 

 from his farm in the valley. 



"About the year 1879 he picked out his best ewes and kept 

 them on his farm in the valley and this flock subsequently devel- 

 oped into a show flock. With regard to his show flock, that is 

 simply kept a-nd treated like any other show flock in England. Its 

 feed and treatment is of the best. Turnips, of course, play a very 



