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high on the loins, down on the rumps, the tail set on 

 very low, sharp on the back, the ribs flat," &c., &c., 

 and were not mature enough to fatten until three years 

 old or past. Of his flock in 1794, Arthur Young* says : 

 " Mr. Ellman's flock of sheep, I must observe in this 

 place, is unquestionably the first in the country ; there 

 is nothing that can be compared with it ; the wool is 

 the finest and the carcass the best proportioned ; al- 

 though I saw several noble flocks afterwards which I 

 examined with a great degree of attention ; some few 

 had very fine wool, which might be equal to his, but 

 then the carcass was ill-shaped, and many had a good 

 carcass with coarse wool ; but this incomparable farmer 

 had eminently united both these circumstances in his 

 flock at Glynde. I affirm this with the greater degree 

 of certainty, since the eye of prejudice has been at work 

 in this country to disparage and call in question the 

 quality of his flock, merely because he has raised the 

 merit of it by unremitted attention above the rest of 

 the neighboring farmers, and it now stands unrivalled." 

 This, it will be noticed, was only twelve years after he 

 began his improvements. To Mr. Ellman's credit be it 

 said that he exhibited none of the selfishness which 

 characterized Mr. Bakewell's career, but was always 



' Annals of Agriculture, Vol. 11, p. 324. 



