CHAP. I. 



CLUN FOREST SHEEP. 



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while many prefer the tan or fawn-coloured face with an occasional 

 white spot. The development of the original native Forest sheep to 

 the present type has extended over a lengthened period, and but little 

 accurate record has been preserved of the changes which have taken 

 place. 



" Granted the breed is a little unformed, or perhaps does not show 

 the effect of the skill of the bi*eed-maker, as do some of the older- 

 established breeds, yet there is undoubtedly in it those characteristics 

 which can be moulded by skilful hands into a sheep which would be 

 hard to beat. The excellence of the meat and wool cannot be denied ; 



Fig. 125. Clun Forest Ram. 



The property of Capt. Campbell-Hyslop, Church Stretton, Salop. 

 (From a photograph taken in the month of March). 



while the shapely well-covered head, with slightly Roman nose, the 

 bold scrag, and the free imperious step denote a robustness with which 

 the breeder may take liberties in order to produce a more rapid maturity, 

 without being afraid of rendering it effeminate or weakly. The horns 

 are being bred out." l 



THE RYELAND sheep (fig. 126) has been preserved from a remote 

 period in Herefordshire, and at one time was very widely kept. It has 



1 See " Clun Forest Sheep," by W. J. Maiden. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 

 Vol. III., 3rd series, 1892, pp. 149 to 155. 



