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Title: Sheep, breeds and management
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wrightson, John
Subjects: Sheep
Publisher: London, Vinton
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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argest and best fleshed of theBabraham Southdown flock. This means, applied withwonderful ability, and at a great cost, at length resulted inthe present perfect animal. This justifies me in giving Mr.Humphrey a first place, while Mr. James Rawlence, theoldest living breeder (with the exception of Mr. WilliamKing, now retired), must be looked upon as his most worthyand best-known successor. Mr. Humphrey, in a communication to Mr. W. C.Spooner, in 1859, gives a short account of the manner inwhich his flock of ewes was got together:—About twenty-five years since, in forming my flock, I purchased the bestHampshire or West Country Down ewes I could meet with.Some of them I obtained from the late Mr. G. Budd, Mr.WiUiam Pain, Mr. Digweed, and other eminent breeders,giving 40s. when ordinary ewes were making 33s., and usingthe best rams I could get of the same kind until the OxfordShow of the Royal Agricultural Society. On examiningthe different breeds exhibited there, I found the Cotswolds
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HAMPSHIRE DOWNS. 57 were beautiful in form and of great size; and, on makinginquiries as to how they were brought to such perfection, Iwas informed that a Leicester ram was coupled to some ofthe largest Cotswold ewes, and the most robust of theproduce was selected for use. The thought then struck methat my best plan would be to obtain a first-rate SussexDown sheep to put to my larger Hampshire Down ewes,both being the Short-woolled breed. . . . With this objectI wrote to Mr. Jonas Webb to send me one of his best sheep,and he sent me a shearling by his favourite sheep Babraham.I went down the next two years, and selected for myself; butthe stock did not suit my taste so well as the one he sent me,and I did not use them. I then commissioned him to sendme the sheep which obtained the first prize at Liverpool,and from these two sheep, the first and the last, by markingthe lambs of each tribe as they fell, then coupling themtogether at the third and fourth generation, my present flockwas m

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