PUBLISHED BY HORACE COX. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH FULL-PACE ENGRAVINGS DRAWN PRINCIPALLY FROM 

 LIFE BY HARRISON WEIR. 



In Imperial 4to., bevelled boards, gilt edges, price 18s. 

 THE 



SHEEP AND PIGS OF GREAT BRITAIN: 



BEING 



A SERIES OF ARTICLES 



ON THE VARIOUS 



BREEDS OF SHEEP AND PIGS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, 

 THEIR HISTORY, MANAGEMENT, &c. 



EDITED BY J. GOLEM AN, 



Editor of the Farm Department of " The Field." and formerly Professor of Agriculture 

 at the Royal Agricultural College. Cirenceflter. 



CONTENTS. 



8 H B3 K F. 



THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP. 



Chap. 



I. Introductory. 

 II. Management of Ewes up to 



Lambing. 

 III. Preparations for and Attention 



during Lambing. 

 IV. Management from Birth to 



Weaning. 



V. From Weaning to Market. 

 Vl-On Wool 



THE BREEDS OF SHEEP. 



Chap. 



I. Leicester Sheep. By the Editor. 

 II. Border Leicesters. By John 



Usher. 



III. Cotswold Sheep. By the Editor. 

 IV. Long-Wooled Lincoln Sheep. 

 V. The Devon Long-Wools. By 



Joseph Darby. 

 VI. Eomney Marsh Sheep. By the 



Editor. 



VII. Southdown Sheep. By the Editor. 



VIII. The Hampshire, or West Country 



Down Sheep. By E. P. Squarey. 



IX. Shropshire Sheep. By the Editor. 



X. Oxfordshire Down Sheep. By 



Messrs. Druce and C. Hobbs. 



Chap. 

 XI. The Boscommon Sheep. By 



B. O. Pringle. 



XII. Negrette Merino Sheep. 

 XIII. Exmoor Sheep. 

 XIV. The Blackfaced or Scotch 



Mountain Sheep. 



X V. Cheviot Sheep. By John Usher. 

 XVI. Dorset Horned Sheep. By 



John Darby. 

 XVII. Welsh Mountain Sheep. By 



Morgan Evans. 

 XVIII. The Radnor Sheep. By Morgan 



Evans. 



XIX. Herdwick Sheep. By H. A. 

 Spedding. 



XX. Sheep Panning in Queensland. 

 By John Sidney. 



PIGS. 



.General Management of Pigs. 

 II. The Berkshire Pig. By the Editor. 

 III. Black Suffolk Pigs. 

 IV. Large White Pigs. By the Editor. 

 V. Small White Pigs. By the Editor 

 VI. Middle-bred White Pigs. By the 



Editor. 



VII. The Black Dorset Pig. By A. 

 Benjafield. 



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