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Sheep Farming In Southern Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2016

Jacob Murray
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Scotland is a mountainous country, the area of mountain and heath land being very much larger than that of arable land. It is this immense area of poor quality, exposed, rugged land that provides the breeding ground for our great sheep industry.

The total number of sheep in Scotland in 1949, according to the June returns, was 7,102,873. In 1939 there were eight million. About two-thirds of the breeding ewes belong to the Scottish Blackface breed ; the others are Cheviots, Border Leicesters and crossbreds.

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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. 55 - 57
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1950

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