Illustrations

Map of the British Isles   26

Sheep breeds characteristic of the “Higher Welsh Mountains”   32

The New Leicester or Dishley breed of sheep   42

Black-faced heath sheep   44

Southdown sheep   50

Merino ram   53

A pair of merino sheep   57

A pair of Exmoor sheep   68

The Ryeland breed of Herefordshire   75

A Hereford bull   80

A Hereford cow descended from the “Tomkins blood”   84

A Shorthorn bull   91

A Longhorn bull   92

A bull of the “wild” white type   94

Corriedale sheep   110

Display of frozen sheep carcasses outside the British New Zealand Meat Company, Christchurch, c. 1900–1920   127

Large flock of merino sheep, South Australia, c. 1900   128

Corriedale-cross sheep at Cheviot Hills Station, Canterbury, c. 1893   137

A Shorthorn cow   142

Portrait of Sir Bartle Frere   158

A Traditional Hereford cow   169

The entrance to the Hereford Cattle Society offices   171

Graphs

British wool imports in millions of pounds, 1790–1870   61

Tons of frozen sheep meat imported to Great Britain, 1885–1910   121