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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
| JUNE 22, 
animal w testinal organs are unable fully to 
assimilate pe — of its ‘compositions, This vigo 
ore necessary a g to the quality of ro 
as it i is rich or poor, succulent or wiry. Quie 
urage the secretion Swi fat, but some exer- 
tion is required to stim mulate the — action of the 
organic functions even for — 
The chief recommendation of awi Leicester sheep is a 
are pro- 
minent, quick and lively, but with a quiet placid ex- 
ion. Ears long and t tandi ackwards, an 
— broad at the 
e 
- | from the 
| excee ded by no animal in Britain. The improvements; 
been made in the shape and qualities: of the 
procee 
e first place, and it is unde- 
best grounds i in Britain. The treat- 
a degre 
hiro rea very great benefits are 
obtained from re stom. 
now men 2 tie sou 
animal 
n gathering canty fo 
value, and. the — of the 
adapted for a gre xt i ak wat 
a Pa ney the whole circle of cultivated groun 
lutely forbids the use of any lo tinand sheep. 
Th ned is included in 
es at maturity — two years, when 
pa lean, and of the fl 
fleece. 
the 8 parts that attend the 
ity 
è The second class of gr 
si —— of the soil t 
he e close- 
$ pleasing, ear large 
a 
ot arrived at the full ps i 
m 
8 
of grounds are steep and * in 
han the first — — ure 
d the herbage is seanty ; 
‘ood, and the soil — of medium | i 
rassy pastures — extend to eginning of the 
is elevation exists all over Scotland 
fmon n wah none at all. 
uires an anim 
ae of the lowlands and the goat- like climber of the 
sno Me au) and it has 
from the hills of that 
ri 
rnless and wholly white in 
colour ; eye prominent and lively, countenance open and 
and distant from e 
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+ +h 
suitable, even though it require a very consider- 
ion in p the requisite quantity and 
urnips and C 
will be not the very stormi 
oined with 
is jo 
s sone, winter keep 
the southern counties of lan the logical 
ease chiefiy “chalk,” rising into — hil hills, that | o 
— from 2 
a short herbage, e | generally | 
— kai” range, 
on the best lands in 
These grounds require 
of climbing the sides of ‘the he bill an derin 
search of the food whic h grows . . than on 
grounds. Accordingly 
= para * is capable 
wandering 
ia 
Sene. be possessed by any article either 
The fourth and la ' and last locality that was ee is the 
ovement in per 4 
ture soon afforded a better See by w e 
size was somew creased, and the igear pa en 
ondin ingly brought forward. 
me of the *southdown ” reba from the 
ted Kingdon 
smaller than - Leicester bre 
imal is and 
fited for moro exertion. 
3 
to onal other came to inhabit 
are found 
in “Seotland and Wales, and where snows — 4. tem 
a 
pests 
not left even 
into 
varieties wanting horns, and the bodies A N pi in 
ee ee r and th They have perhaps lived 
in the greatest ge on the Lam uir hills of the 
moej jwe of ee in the pneg of Selkirk, both 
of which si * far remo Kas from the native 
— soy the Ch Cheviot ia to w are issimi- 
imagined, How two — s0 eag unlike 
tricts so near in 
ool short, close, curled, and | 
ecting fib It feteh 
the * price ce of short ool g Abres. etches | 
uthdo — 
I E 
1 fibre and 
‘vacua — that is equalled by few 
and | carcase by steam-boat to London 
situation, neither history nor . — has eee to 
explain. 
This animal is mostly horned, the one omens 
being often destitute of horns, The 
— or — ttle e caer 3 
on nk Sage gy—the hard, ae feeling lessens 
8 of firs 
the animal asa it very unfit to 
ned in a lowland enclosed co uch is sent 
2 other large towns. 
eny | muc 
f | maturity is ie age of four 
0 
t is — if at all, to the Leicester I 
re the w i canty. The and ti 
well adapted for — purpose of folding on the land; and 
in some parti n 
uthdown | wh 
te quality to an altitude that abso- 
0 
been most admirably found — 
0 
questionable if any inerease in 
the would be 
no 
1 
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| 
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the 
The of this sheep with any other b 
wholly Tailed, Tio the original ani z $ > bese 
roved 
y judicious 3 
years, 
otla: 
pproaches to the foot of Pe — 
reed et been found 
8 so far and invade the territory. of the original 
A 
able of resisting the number 
ocali 
wor on 
animals being mostly 
ge — horned. But bo th K 
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. 8. 8 
a 
uced, and successfully, but on * eet 
aboriginal 
animals 
may be ver t a a Judicious 
selection in bmd ing from the 
bey saha The ik =é require meal y et 
rs at maturity, and then weigh 40 to 50 lbs. 
an Average. The mutton is much best in quality 
e moun 
In i improving any breed of animals, or in producing 
eed from the consorting of — = that are 
ent qualities, 
be filled up, so as to produce a beneficial m 
extremes of — aration. 
gr und posses: os 
oreign introduetion, and it requir 
mp 
were 
jo 
Lee 
— ns of the im coi 
a fixed law tha which — ihpró 
require a — g degree of better e 
and this truth should always strietly be borne in 
in the attempts to im tructure of a 
the 2 mo spore in 1 and asione the ee 
animal w mmodate them- 
xposu 
the success or failure of locality. 
and southdown sheep, into any io persia cious to sheep, 
the food that is eaten. Thi 
ideration 
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