Sheep breeds
Found in 329 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from F. Bailey, 13 June 1915
Bailey writes that he is staying with Miss Christie at Cowden Castle, Dollar, where a Tahitian boy is lodging and receiving a military education. Bailey provides some details about sheep in Tahiti.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 06 November 1910
Lort writes that he has not yet been able to buy any Welsh ewes that have not been with a ram, but when he does he will send one with a 'Soa' ewe to Pocock and four to Ewart along with a Shropshire and St Kilda cross and Manx and St Kilda cross. He provides some information about the tails of various sheep breeds.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Harald Faber, 23 July 1912
Faber has asked Axel Appel to send Ewart some photographs of the original Danish breeds of sheep, of which there seems to be two: the heath-sheep and the Danish sheep. He mentions Appel's description of these breeds in the forthcoming agricultural dictionary Landbrugets Ordbog (Copenhagen).
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 15 August 1911
Noble writes that he would be glad to join a society to improve the breed (of sheep) he is interested in and goes on to answer some questions about various aspects of sheep breeding.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 30 March 1912
Noble writes that he is expecting a visit from Elwes and that Ewart is welcome to stay too. He sees in The Field that Lydekker still believes that a certain breed of sheep are from South Africa although he has not been able to provide any proof, and that they were certainly in Britain 100 years before either of the flocks he mentions.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 13 April 1912
Noble confirms that the four-horned wether has been killed, and he will send Ewart the head, skin and fore quarter, although the quality of mutton is not good. Carl Hagenbeck has answered his enquiry and stated that he has never come across a breed in North Africa which could be inferred to be the ancestors of the English type.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, 23 May 1912
Noble reports that he has heard from an acquaintance that the piebald sheep breed is unknown to him, and that his friend H.M Wallis didn't hear of any sheep like theirs when he was in Algeria. He concludes that the piebald sheep appear to be the result of a cross which has bred true, but that the country of origination cannot be traced, and that the breed now does not exist outwith the British Isles.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Heatley Noble, with enclosed letter to Noble from Colonel Henry Platt, 26 April 1912
Noble notes the 'interesting' enclosure from Platt.
Platt, in a letter dated 25 April 1912, provides information about piebald sheep near the Portugese frontier and asks if there is any chance that they are advancing in their studies.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 31 March 1911
Elwes mentions an interesting breed of sheep called 'Neerie sheep' he has heard of from Harvie-Brown, as well as another breed, 'dun-faced sheep', which he has read about. He will write to Switzerland for information on a race of Swiss sheep which appears to resemble the Soay sheep and may be a direct descendent of a primeval Swiss breed.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry John Elwes, 08 April 1911
Elwes suggests that he and Ewart write a joint paper on sheep. He proposes to visit and photograph each different variety of sheep if they are not mongrels. He has heard of a flock of Faroe sheep near Peterborough as well as sheep in Brittany and Iceland.