HURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE 



m 1641. 



OF SHEEPE. 



Sheepe is not onely a common name for both sexes, but is 

 likewise putt and taken for all generally, as when men say a 

 flocke, a keepinge, or a folde of sheepe : 



/ Tuppes, i. e. Rammes, 

 All sheepe are eyther I w^^+'i 



V Riggons. 



IHunge tuppes. 

 Close tuppes. 

 Riggon tuppes. 

 Hrnge tuppes are such as have both the stones in the codde, 

 and they onely are to bee kept for breeders ; because of the 

 experienced adage, OTiine anmial general sibi simile. Close 

 tuppes are such as have both the stones in the ridge of the 

 backe, and are therefore very difficult to geld. Riggon tuppes 

 are such as have one stone in the codde, and the other in the 

 ridge of the backe, and therefore the most dainger and diffi- 

 cultie is in geldinge of these, beinge to bee cutt in two places 

 before they can be made cleane weathers. 



- Howe to knowe Tuppes from Wethers. 

 If the tuppe be either close tuppe or riggon tuppe, yow may 

 (if hee bee an homed tuppe) knowe him by the big-nesse and 

 gi-eenesse of his homes, whiche in a weather seeme deade, and 

 are both smaller and shorter ; but if hee bee a dodded tuppe, 

 yow may knowe him best by the brantnesse of his foreheade, 

 which appearith high and sharpe in the space betwixt eyebrow 

 and the nose grissles ; but in an ewe, or weather, seemeth low 

 and flatte. 



