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The Stratification of Scottish Sheep Farming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

J. A. Symon
J. A. Symon*
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture for Scotland
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Extract

In the economy of Scottish agriculture, the two mountain breeds of sheep, the Blackface and the Cheviot, play a most important part. Not only do they convert the rough herbage of the hills into wool and store sheep for fattening, but they also provide low country farmers with these handsome Crossbred ewes that are to be found everywhere, and which in their turn produce the heavyweight fattening sheep favoured by crop-growing farmers for the double purpose of converting aftermath, grass and roots into mutton and of maintaining the fertility of their soils.

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(2) Fourteenth Meeting: “Livestock Farming in the Lowlands of Scotland”
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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production , Volume 1951 , Issue 2: Fourteenth Meeting , September 1950 , pp. 53 - 54
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1950

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