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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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well in his work ofselection and improvement. The great similarity in type between the Wensleydale,Leicester, and west country Devon Longwools is verystriking, and evidently points back to a common origin.These Longwoolled races of Leicester type appear to haveoccupied the country from Yorkshire on the north-east toDevon and Somerset on the south-west, and to have ex-tended through Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Worces-tershire, and Gloucestershire, and adjoining counties. Theytherefore occupied a broad band in the Midlands and in thenorth-eastern and south-western counties, following, indeed,the northern boundary of the chalk formation, south of whichthe Down breeds have their home, and north of which thehardier mountain races of Wales, Derbyshire, Lancashire,Cheviots, and the Highlands of Scotland are to be found. Mr. J. Heugh, of Mudd Fields, Bedale, writes to us asfollows:—The Wensleydale Longwoolled sheep appear tohave had their origin in the valley of the Tees, on the borders
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THE WENSLEYDALE LONGWOOLS. 39 of Yorks and Durham; as, up to recent years, they wereknown by the name of Teeswaters, and, in some districts, areknown by that name to this day. According to some authori-ties, they took a part in building up the new Leicester or theDishley sheisp. Speaking of Robert Bakewell, and of the oldbreeds he used in his experiments, and in the proportion heemployed them, one writer says :— The old Leicester breed,which might come most readily to his hand, were large, coarseanimals, with an abundant fleece, and a fair disposition tofatten, and they probably contributed not a little to his results.But other Long-woolled breeds, particularly the old Lincolnand two other breeds, respectively Warwickshire and thevalley of the Tees, are also reported to have been more or lessin requisition. They took the name of Wenslej^dale Long-wools about the time the Yorkshire Agricultural Society com-menced giving prizes for them, being more extensivelycultivated in Wensleydale

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