1 40 Saddle and Sirloin. 



tup-hogg will clip to I2lbs., according to the nature 

 of the soil. Clay land is favourable for wool on the 

 belly ; but the finer bred they are the greater the 

 difficulty in preventing it from peeling. The lambs 

 are generally born with a top-knot, but it comes off, 

 and if their whisker or their scrag wool is very plenti- 

 ful, they are pretty certain to peel below. Rams 

 which have this tendency are generally capital graziers, 

 and get better fat lambs, and are therefore in good 

 request for crossing. Their hocks should be rather 

 away from them if they are to follow Cheviot ewes on 

 the hill-side, and to travel on the undulating farms 

 from the banks of the Tweed to the Beaumont. They 

 should also have plenty of bone, and not be round in 

 the shank, and, as with the Dartmoors, a wide tail 

 is a great point. The heads should be long and 

 thin, without any tendency to a blue shade, the ears 

 broad and erect, the nose brown coloured or hazel, 

 with an open nostril and a large expressive eye. The 

 scrags are hard to keep up to the proper thickness, 

 but still the leg of mutton or the gigot is the prime 

 difficulty, and there is also a tendency to be too fat 

 on the rib. 



CHAPTER VII. 



"We eat prodigiously — indeed, so great is our love of good cheer, 

 that we name our children after our favourite dishes. If a person in 

 good society is not called ' Sir Rosbif,' he will probably answer to the 

 name of 'Lord Bifstek,' in honour of the two great national dishes, 

 which we have spelt in that manner from time immemorial." — 

 "Foreigners' Portraits." — Household Words. 



Bakewell's Longhorns — The Holderness and Teeswater — Great Short- 

 horn Breeders — Mr. Bates — Mr. Fawcett's Recollections of him — 

 Show of Terriers at Yarm — Shoeing Contest — Hound Show at 

 Redcar — Photographing the Huntsmen — The Neasham Hall Stud — 

 Sparkler of the Hurworth — Mr. Wetherell's Herds. 



ODERN history has been much too sparing 

 in its prose pictures of pastoral life. A great 



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