SHEEP. 



Brocklefby. Lincoln more profitable than Leicefter. 



Lumber, Where a man can keep, by means of mardi, 



to three-fhear, Lincoln moft profitable, 

 but not otherwifc. Not more Leiceilers 

 kept on the fame land. Leicefter wool 

 IJ-. a tod more than Lincoln. Leicefter 

 more liable to the fly. 



Cadney. Leicefter will feed a httle fafter, and run a 



little thicker. 



Beleflsy. Leicefter one in fix more on the fame land, 



but both go at the fame age. Leicefters 

 hardier, and have lefs off^al. Tallow 

 equal ; wool higher priced. Gives corn 

 to Leicefters, but did not to Lincolns. 



Alefby. Leicefters feed quicker, and have lefs offal ; 



wethers and hogs lefs wool, but ewes 

 equal, and on the whole more per acre ; 

 hardier, and bear driving better. Go 

 oif at the fame age, but Leicefters fatter. 

 Five kept inftead of four. Lamb eafier ; 

 neced'ary to give corn. 



Humberfton. More jjride than profit in the new fort. 



Leicefters zlbs. lefs wool than Lincolns, and 

 not better ; but run one in ten thicker. 



.Louth. Leicefters feed quicker, and have lighter 



offals. No difference in hardinefs. Lin- 

 coln beft. 



Tathwell. Lincolns and Leicefters being put together 



into the marfti, and fent thence at fame 

 time to Smithfield ; the former yielded 

 4j. a-head more, and ^s. a-head more 

 wool. 



Cookfwold. Marfh graziers all prefer Lincoln. No dif- 

 ference in number kept. 



Tathwell. Lincoln wool 4lbs. heavier than Leicefter. 



At two-ftiear, Lincoln heavier by zlbs. a 

 quarter ; at three-ftiear, 5lbs. In tallow, 

 61bs. at three-fhear, in favour of Lincoln. 

 In number per acre no difference. In 

 hardinefs, Lincoln beft. Leicefters lefs 

 wool, and lefs mutton per acre. 



Drlby. No difference in number kept. 



Spilfby. Leicefters as fat at Lady-day, coming two- 



fhear, as Lincolns at Lammas. Same 

 number per acre. No difference in hardi- 

 nefs ; Leicefters have corn. 



Horncaftle. Three-fliear better than two, as fare to find 

 more tallow. 



Afgarby. Leicefters bred too fine ; fine-headed ones 



do not yield wool enough. 



Frampton. As many of one as the other ^tr acre. Lin- 



. coins travel beil, and pay beft. 



Ranby. Leicefters tliicker on laiiu, as five to four. 



Alderkirk. In an experiment of the two breeds on the 



fame land, of the fame weight and age, 

 the Lincolns confiderably fupcrior. 



Tliorefwuy. True Lincolns moft laleable, and moft pro- 

 fitable to breed. 



Sudbrook. One-third more Leicefters on the fame land. 



Rifeholm. Bofton gra/.iers not judges, for they can get 



good Lincolns, but not Leicefters, as the 

 breeders of theft- can fat them themfelves. 

 Leicefters rwn one-fourth thicker on the 

 land. From fix to twelve months old, 

 ratlu r tenderer than Lincolns ; Leicefters 

 travel beft. 

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Claypool. LeicefVer? as fat at one year as Lincoln* at 



two, and with lefs trouble, and one-tenth 

 thicker. Do as well as Lincolns in win- 

 ter on wet land. 



Marfton. Leicefters beft, and run one-fixth thicker. 



Woolfthorpe. Leicefters by far the beft ; but more apt to 

 be barren than Lincoln. Drape ewes far 

 more valuable. 



Grimfthorpe. Leicefters travel beft, and are the beft ; and 

 much lefs lofs in lambing ; run one-third 

 thicker. 



A clear diftinftion is to be drawn, as the writer remarks, 

 between the rich fouth-eaftern diftridt and inferior foils ; 

 for, upon the former, the information is ftrong in favour of 

 Lincoln. However, in general, he fhould obferve, that the 

 new Leiceflers are fpreading very rapidly over the country, 

 probably fafter than they have done in any other, one or two 

 only excepted, which may be attributed to the general good- 

 nefs of the foil ; for this breed makes a much more relpeft- 

 able figure here than it has done in various trials made in 

 counties inferior to it in foil ; and the breed driving out the 

 Lincolns fo much as it has done in the poorer parts of this 

 county, is a faft that unites with this circumftance. The 

 true Lincoln is a large fheep, and with a longer wool, and 

 therefore demands better pafturage ; where it finds fuch, 

 there the old breed remains ; fubjeft, perhaps, to little more 

 change than fafhion may caufe. Upon inferior land the 

 Leicefter eftablifhes itfelf ; and upon land ftill inferior in 

 other counties, experiments prove unfuccefsfiil for the fame 

 reafon ; that of the neceffity of having a fmaller fize and 

 fhorter wool. 



But fome of the original pure long-wooUed polled breed 

 of fheep, are ftill to be met with in the midland diftridls, 

 which are a larger boned, longer formed, deeper coated, and 

 more coarfe flock than the improved f /rt. And that, from 

 the coarfenefs and larger fize of the head and neck in the 

 old fort, the ewes lamb with more difficulty than in the true 

 Dilbley breed. 



The new Leicefter fort of fheep is found a very advan- 

 tageous breed on fome kinds of land in the counly of Oxford, 

 as on the Itone-brafli ; there are fome farmers indeed, who 

 think that no other fort comes nearly up to them, when all 

 their valuable properties are taken into the account. 



Colfiuold or Gloucejler Breed or Variety. — This is a breed 

 of fheep which, according to a late writer on them, is of the 

 fine combing wool lort, deriving the finencfs of their fleece 

 from the fame fource as the new Leicefters. Tiiis part of that 

 county formerly, and within memory, bred, it is faid, fmal! 

 fine-wooUed flieep of the Ryeland kind, which in paft times 

 had been cotted, but the praftice was difcontinued. Thefe 

 flieep, being judged too fmall for the improving itate of the 

 county, have been, by gradual croffingswith Midland long. 

 wooUed rams, chiefly Warwicks, completely changed from 

 fliort to large long-woollcd Itock. The writer faw a picked 

 lot ot Cotfwolds laft year, he lays, which anfwered the 

 following defcription : long coarfe head, with a particular 

 blunt, wide note; a top-knot of wool on the forehead, 

 running under the ears ; rather long neck ; great length 

 and breadth of back and loin ; full thigh, witli more fub- 

 ftance in the liindcr than fore-quarters ; bone fomcwliat fine ; 

 legs not long ; fleece loft, like that of the Difliley, but in 

 clofcnefs and darkncfs of colour, bearing more refi-mblancc 

 to fhort or carding wool. Although very fat, they had 

 all the appearance of flieep that were full of folid flefh, 

 which would come heavy to the icale. It is added, that it 

 is faid, fome of thofe fheep have reached 40, and even 5olhs. 

 3 G a quarter, 



