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Hill Sheep

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

D. H. Dinsdale
D. H. Dinsdale*
Affiliation:
King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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The reports which appeared last January from the English and Scottish Hill Sheep Farming Committees have shown that the economic utilization of our extensive areas* of high lying land has thrown up a number of closely inter-related problems, some technical, some administrative, others legal, social, or political. I have to select from this complexity those aspects of the hill sheep industry which most properly fall within the scope of the Society’s interests and which can be presented within the space of half an hour. It is not easy.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1944 , Issue 2: Second Meeting , 24 October 1944 , pp. 10 - 24
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1944

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Note on page 10 * Over 10 million acres in Scotland and about 5 million acres in England and Wales.

Note on page 10 † Listed in order of numerical importance the main hill breeds of sheep in England and Wales, their general location, and their rough proportion in the total, are :

Welsh Mountain throughout Wales..  ..  .. about 50 per cent
Swaledale  .. The Pennines, south to the Peak, north to the Tyne gap, and north-west to the Lake District „ 20 „
Scotch Blackface.. Northern Pennines.. .. „ 14 „
Cheviot ..  .. North-East Pennines and Cheviots „ 5 „
Herdwick .. Cumberland and Westmorland Fells „ 5 „
Gritstone and Lonk Peak District  ..  ..  .. „ 1 „

There are also such breeds as the Kerry Hill, Radnor, Clun, etc., but these I would regard as upland rather than hill breeds, since the use of rams of these breeds marks the first stage in crossing down towards lowland requirements.

Note on page 13 * These figures treat each flock as a unit, making no allowance for combinations of flocks under a single management.

Note on page 13 † In Scotland, e.g. 75 per cent, of all hill sheep are in flocks of more than 300 ewes. I cannot give a corresponding figure for England and Wales, but would expect it to be of much the same order.

Note on page 13 ‡ Scottish Committee’s Report, p. 31.

Note on page 13 § English Committee’s Report, App. II, Table 7.

Note on page 17 * See Scottish Committee’s Report, Appendix XIX.