The Clun Forest breed of West Shropshire and the adjacent parts of Wales is a mixture of the Ryeland, Shropshire, and Welsh breeds.

3.  The Cheviot is found on both sides of the hills of that name, though Northumberland is said to be its original home, and it was improved in the eighteenth century by crossing with the Lincoln.

The Blackfaced Mountain breed is found chiefly in Scotland, but thrives on the bleak grazing lands of the north of England.

The Herdwicks’ home is the hills of Cumberland and Westmoreland, where they are hardy enough to fatten on the poor, thin pasture.

The Lonk is the largest mountain breed, belonging to the fells of Yorkshire and Lancashire.

The Dartmoors and Exmoors almost certainly came from one stock, though the former are now the larger, and are the few real survivors of the old forest or mountain breeds of England.  The Exmoor is horned, the Dartmoor hornless.

The Welsh Mountain is a small, hardy, soft-woolled breed, their mutton having the best flavour of any sheep, and their wool making the famous Welsh flannel.

The Limestone is little known outside the fells of Westmoreland.

PIGS

Our pigs may be roughly divided into white, black, and red; the first comprising the Large, Middle, and Small Whites, formerly called Yorkshires; the second the Small Black (Suffolk or Essex), the Large Black only recently recognized, but apparently very ancient, and the Berkshire, which often has white marks on face, legs, or tail.  The red is the Tamworth, one of the oldest breeds, its skin being red with dark spots.

FOOTNOTES: 

[734] Youatt, Complete Grazier (1900), p. 388; cf. pp. 104-5.

[735] Youatt, Complete Grazier (1900), p. 6.

[736] See above.

[737] Rural Economy of West of England, i. 235 cf. above, p. 235.

[738] See above.

[739] ii. 126; about 1770.

[740] Youatt, Complete Grazier, p. 18, and see ‘Druid’, Saddle and Sirloin.

[741] Cf. supra, p. 167.

[742] Culley on Live Stock (1807), p. 42.

[743] See p. 233.

[744] Much of these accounts of Herefords and Devons is from the author’s articles in the Victoria County History.

[745] See above.

[746] Risdon, Survey (1810), Introd. p. viii.

[747] Rural Economy of West of England, i. 235.  Risdon says of Devonshire:  ’As to cattle, no part of the Kingdom is better supplied with beasts of all sorts, whether for profit or pleasure,’ those for pleasure being apparently wild ones kept in parks.—­Chapple’s Review of Risdon’s Survey, p. 23.

[748] R.A.S.E.  Journal (1st ser.), xi. 680.  See also ibid. xix. 368, and (2nd ser.) v. 107; xiv. 663; xx. 691.