424 Saddle and Sirloin. 



more especially to Newtown Fair on October 26th, 

 where the jobbers and farmers have often 1000 to 

 pick over.* 



Sir Watkin Wynn may well have foxes counter- 

 salient on his quarterings. His career as M. F. H. 

 extends over nearly thirty seasons, and when John 

 Walker became huntsman, on the death of Will 

 Grice, in 1848, he found forty-five couple of hounds 

 in the kennel. Sir Watkin had given 400 guineas 

 for four couple when Mr. Foljambe's were sold off. 

 There were no stallions, and the Duke of Rutland's 

 and Lord Henry's kennels were generally resorted 

 to, as well as Mr. Foljambe's Render and Shropshire 

 Comrade. Tamerlane, by Belvoir Fencer, from Grove 

 Tempest, and Herald, by Belvoir Grappler, from 



* What has been said about Upper Radnorshire applies as much to 

 the higher parts of Montgomeryshire and Cardigan, but with this ex- 

 ception, that the Cardigan wethers seldom go to a fair. Many of them 

 are bought for parks, and improve amazingly on the 5lbs. to 61bs. per 

 quarter which they would weigh on their arrival. Once the farmers 

 were glad to sell the draft ewes at all prices, from 3/. lay. to 7/. a 

 score ; but although there is little or no change in their size, the jobbers 

 and the railways have brought them out, and 18/. to 20/. has been 

 reached for them. Some jobbers will buy their 10,000 from two or 

 three counties, and have no difficulty whatever in placing them out each 

 September and October. Many of them are bought for the lower 

 ground in Montgomeryshire, and others go into Surrey, Bucks, and 

 Berks — where their fame as sucklers has preceded them — and breed 

 excellent early lambs by a Leicester or Southdown. A small per- 

 centage are killed in driving, and they require some shepherding before 

 they settle down to their new rural life, as they have been known to 

 break all bounds, and to be drowned in the rivers and ditches. 



In the lower part of Radnorshire a different style of sheep and sheep- 

 farming prevails. Radnor Forest and Clun Forest, which form the 

 boundary-line between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, have been 

 enclosed. The paring-plough has done its work, and seeds and turnips 

 on the hundred-acre allotments have succeeded heather and ling. The 

 hardy, close-fleeced Shrop has also been a most able adjutant, and 

 lambs by him from the Clun Forest ewes, and fed on these pastures, 

 are worth from 30^. to 35^. at seven months. Very good lambs of the 

 sort are also to be found about Knighton, and some of them near Kerry 

 Pole (which lies in the route of the sale wethers from Knighton to 

 Newtown) fetched 54^. as two-shears last year. — Royal Society's 

 Journal {li. H. D.), 1S67. 



