An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch.
- James Loch
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An account of the improvements on the estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland : with remarks. Pt.1, Sutherland / by James Loch. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[64] vided into three sorts. First, the small lambs, or palejs, of both sexes, into one lot, which is sent directly off to the best fogage or clover in Culmaily (the wether hog herding). Secondly, the wether lambs, which are sent also to Oulmaily, and settled on Benvragie mountains, above Loch-Lundie. And, thirdly, the ewe lambs which are sent off to the ewe hog herding in Strathnaver. At the time the wether lambs are settled about Loch- Lundie, the sale wethers are below in the hog ground ; but these aje sent to market, or to the feeder, before the middle of August, and then the wether lambs are gradually allowed to descend the mountain, to the hog land, the hay fog, the harvest stubbling, and, finally to the turnips, of which I have about fifty acres in pre- paration. These are calculated to last the lambs or hogs until the middle of March (besides leaving, per- haps, ten or fifteen acres for other purposes). The wether hogs are then delivered to one of the wether shepherds, who happens that year to have the sale sheep, or three-year old wethers, in Strathnaver. These wethers he exchanges for the wether hogs with the hog shepherd, and these are brought into the wether hog land, to be prepared for market. Meantime, the wether hogs are spread out to feed on the land that had been possessed by the wethers, and there they remain for two years, at the end of which time they come into the wether hog land, and by and by go to market. The wethers are thus bred up to considerable bone ; for the more bone, the higher price will, ccpteris panbus, be paid by the feeder. With the ewes, bone is of less consequence ; she belongs more properly to the breeder than to the feeder. She gives five fleeces and three lambs to the breeder ; and we consider more what she](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24880395_0260.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
