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Management of Slieep. 



feeding off coleseed upon the same principle, and are much used 

 for this purpose in South Lincolnshire, where it is not uncommon 

 to see coleseed much higher than the sheep, particularly in those 

 situations where paring and burning " is practised, and the seed 

 drilled in with a portion of bones. The feeding properties of 

 this coleseed are unrivalled by any artificial food. 



When the feeding of tares is practised to any extent, they are 

 sown at different intervals during the spring, to hold out until 

 after harvest, at which time the lambs are removed to the barley 

 stubbles, or young seeds, and are supplied with white turnips 

 thrown upon the land for a short time. They are placed upon 

 the turnips at the end of September, and commence their winter 

 management with cut turnips and artificial food, which is increased 

 during the winter. About March and April they are sold fat to 

 the butchers in the neighbourhood, or sent to the London market. 

 Those breeders who bestow less care and expense upon their 

 lamb -hogs sell them in a store state at the principal fairs in the 

 neighbourhood, to be fattened by the graziers : the breeders, in 

 fact, make it their practice to clear them off when the turnips are 

 finished. The flock-ewes are drafted and sold upon the plan 

 adopted by the Lincoln- Heath breeders. 



Under the head of long wools the old Teeswaters may be men- 

 tioned, although the kind is nearly extinct. The animals were 

 originally bred more particularly upon the banks of the Tees, in 

 Yorkshire, whence they derive their name, and in those days were 

 thought valuable for that district of country, as they possessed 

 great size and constitution (similar to the Lincolns), and were 

 bred from the same stock. By the breeders paying more atten- 

 tion to size than to wool, they became a different style of slieep ; 

 but subsequently, by crossing with the Leicesters, they have be- 

 come more in conformity with the Yorkshire description, and 

 cannot now be traced to any particular locality. The sheep of 

 the Yorkshire class is a bold upstanding animal, with gay looks, 

 open wool, and open texture of flesh. The Yorkshire breeders 

 prefer selling their produce as shearlings in the autumn: they 

 make a great display at the Market Weighton Fair, on the 25th 

 of September. Their management is very similar to that ob- 

 served on Lincoln Heath — those animals fattened from turnips 

 being forced during the winter, and those intended for shearlings 

 are kept more moderate, and placed in the early part of the 

 summer upon the clovers, whence they are removed to early 

 coleseed, sown expressly for finishing them off, in which they 

 very much excel. 



When the shearlings are sold, the wether-lambs are placed 

 upon the coleseed, to clean up previously to their going to turnips 

 and the land being sown with wheat : this is considered the best 



