THE MUTTON BREEDS OF SHEEP 353 
of the flocks in Canada and the United States. Some 
owners assert that the modern American Leicester is a 
better sheep than either of the English types, and that this 
is the only English breed of sheep that has been improved 
in America. Certainly the modern American Leicester is a 
fine sheep, evenly developed, and when in good form is 
a beautiful animal. 
426. Description. — The Leicesters are a hornless breed 
of sheep, of large size, rec- 
tangular form of body on 
clean legs, and with bare 
faces or carrying a very 
scant topknot. (Fig. 71. 
Plate XIII.) 
There are two types in 
the breed, the English or 
Bakewell, and the Border 
Leicesters, and these vary somewhat in form and details. 
Both types are recognized by all Leicester associations. 
427. Types. — The Dishley or Bakewell type became 
widely used in England, and has become known as the 
English Leicester. Because of its great prepotency and 
its quality of putting on fat quickly, it became popular 
as the greatest of all the mutton breeds for crossing pur- 
poses and for early market lambs. 
The Border Leicester is so named because it is bred in 
the border counties of England and Scotland, Roxborough- 
shire in Scotland being now the headquarters of the breed. 
George Culley, of Denton, near Darlington in Durham, 
and his brother are looked on as the original breeders of 
the Border Leicester. The Culleys hired rams from Dish- 
ley and crossed them on a stock of Teeswater ewes till 
they had a flock of Leicesters. When they retired in 
2a 
Fic. 71. — Leicester ram. 
