784 CATTLE AND DAIEY FARMING. 



iast year; and £30 was the highest figure going, which was paid by the Marquis of 

 Tweedale. The Duke of Buccleuch had an average of £6 2s. Sd., being £b 15s. under 

 last year, and his highest price was £28. 



At the Irish ram- breeders' sale, Viscount de Vesci offered twelve rams, which obtained 

 the best average, and the highest price for an individual ram was J£31 10s. The Border 

 Leicester is a favorite sheep, and makes capital mutton. 



COTSWOLDS. 



Cotswolds are greally favored on the G-loucestershire hills, whence they derive their 

 name, and many breeders in other counties are exceedingly fond of the breed. Mr. Rob- 

 •ert Game, of Oldsworth, obtained the good average of £20 Is. lOd. for an exceedingly 

 -even lot; and Mr. C. Mace and Mr. J. Game had £9 5s. and £9 respectively. But at 

 Hempton Green Mr. T. Brown's celebrated Marham Hall flock met a ready sale at from 

 8 to 18J guineas, the sixty averaging £12 16s. Last year Mr. Brown's highest price 

 was 17J guineas and his average £11 'Ss. Mr. J. B. Aylmer, of Fincham Hall, madethe 

 high average of £12 ISs. ; the top price last year was 15 guineas. Mr. T. Thornton's 

 .shearling rams, bred from the west Dereham flock, fetched from 7 to 19J guineas. Last 

 jear the prices ran from 9 to 19 guineas, and the average £12 6s., as compared with £8 

 ■Ss. in 1881. Mr. Thomas Allen, of Markshall, offered a number of rams at Horringer fair, 

 which made prices ranging from £9 downwards. At the letting of the West Dereham 

 Long- wools, Hugh Aylmer had a most satisfactory sale. The rams offered were of a fine 

 Tmiform character, presenting in a high degree that combination of good qualities for 

 which the West Dereham flock is famous. The average for the lambs was £7 10s. 9d., 

 .against £5 19s. 6d. last year. The highest price was £15 158. 



. LINCOLNS. 



This long- wool breed seem to decline In value. Possibly this was due this year to the 

 prevalence of disease and the restrictions in force respecting movement. Time was when 



.a colonial breeder would have given 150 guineas for a ram which last season only fetched 



.about 40 or 50 guineas. The averages made were much lower than those of last year — a 

 fact which the figures we give indicate. 

 At Biscathorpe, Louth, the late Mr. Thomas Kirkham's flock was disposed of. Sixty- 



.eight rams averaged a trifle over 14 guineas per head. The highest price was 62 guineas. 

 Mr. Edward James Davy (Owersby, near Market Gasen) sold 20 rams. The highest 

 price was given by Mr. J. H. Vessey, 58 guineas. The average was 17 guineas. Mr. 



•Charles Clarke attrsicted a large company to Ashby-de-la-Launde. A symmetrical shearl- 

 ing was secured by Mr. J. W. Davy, of Owersby, for 37 guineas; a magnificent sheep fell 

 to the bid of Mr. TaylorSharpe, of Baumber, for 36 guineas. Mr. J. H. Caswell, ot Laugh- 

 ton, hired a fine animal for 50 guineas. A remarkable fine three-shear fell to the bid of 

 Mr. J. R. Kirkham, of Cadeby, at 27 guineas. Shearlings averaged £14 15s. lOd. The 

 hundred sheep realized a total of £1,478 188. 6d. , an average (Tf £14 15s 9Jd. Last year 

 the average of 100 sheep was £13 5s. 8d. For the rams of the Hultoft flock, the property 

 of Messrs. W. F. andC. Robinson, Mr. J. Robinson, of Anderby, gave 40 guineas. The 

 Ulceby Grange flock, the property of Mr. John Turner, averaged 11 guineas. The 

 -higher prices were £25 10s., £24, and £21. Mr. Henry Dudding, of Riby Grange, near 



•Grimsby (late of Panton), sold 30, making an average of nearly £12; Mr. Samuel 



•Grant, Brigg, got one for 21 guineas, and anothei: at £15 (for exportation to New Zea- 

 land). The Wootton Dale rams, the property of Mr. Thomas Taylor, Havercroft, aver- 



-aged nearly £9. Forty rams of the famous Cadeby flock, bred by Mr. John Walesby, 

 Kirkham, averaged £15 10s. per head, one of the best averages obtained in Lincoln 



.shire last season. The highest prices were 54 and 56 guineas. The highest-priced ram 

 belonging to Mr. J. Pears, of Mere, was bought by Mr. H. Smith, of Cropwell Grove, 

 for 50 guineas. Mr. E. Paddison, of Ingfeby, obtained an average of £8 10s. Id. Mr. 

 W. Grimes, of Harmston, made an average of £10 18s. 4|d. Thirty shearlings, bred 



'by Mr. C. S. Dickenson, of Ashficld House, Branston, averaged £10 7s. 6id. In Ireland 



(the highest price was 24 guineas, obtained by Mr. R. E. Going, of Nenagh, and his aver- 



•age was £2 over that of last year. 



YOBKSUIBE OE WENSLEYDALE. 



The origin of this breed is somewhat obscure. It is locally termed Wensleydale, al- 

 though known in the south of Scotland as the Yorkshire. It has a dash of Leicester 

 blood, and it is through this cross that the blue faces were first introduced. The Wens- 

 leydales furnish rams for crossing with blask-faced ewes and Cheviots, the prodnce be- 

 ang styled " half-breeds " or "Mashams." The rams follow the ewes over the hills, 



