SHEEP. By J.F.H. Thomas.

(1945) 1948 reprint. 8vo (140 x 223mm). Pp196. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

This book is an interesting and constructive "attempt to give a picture of the Sheep and Sheep Farming of Great Britain" in immediate postwar years". The men who look after sheep play a small but vitally important role in our British Farming. Like sailors, their lives are greatly influenced by foul weather; they too have the eyes of men who spend much time under the canopy of heaven, gazing on distant things. To those men in lonely places, who, with patience and fortitude, have made the care of sheep their life's work, this book is dedicated". Chapters include: The importance of sheep in British farming; Our breeds and cross-breeds; Sheep farming systems and shepherding; Routine flock management; Flock hygiene - diseases and other causes of loss; Sheep on lowland farms; Mountain and hill sheep farming in Scotland; Sheep farming in the Scottish Border counties; Sheep farming in Wales; The production and marketing of mutton, lamb, and wool; The future, possibilities and suggestions. An appendix lists the sheep breed societies.