Excerpt from Sheep: Breeds and Management There is genuine poetry in pastoral life which it would be sad to lose. Nevertheless, agricultural science and litera ture are between them rapidly taking the romance out of it. Perhaps we should add, hard times, and the vital im portance of making things pay. It is a pity to lose the faculty of discerning the beauty of the dewy eve and rising moon, or listening as the amorous thrush concludes his song; or only to think of the price of mutton and of wool, or of lambs as fore and ...
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Excerpt from Sheep: Breeds and Management There is genuine poetry in pastoral life which it would be sad to lose. Nevertheless, agricultural science and litera ture are between them rapidly taking the romance out of it. Perhaps we should add, hard times, and the vital im portance of making things pay. It is a pity to lose the faculty of discerning the beauty of the dewy eve and rising moon, or listening as the amorous thrush concludes his song; or only to think of the price of mutton and of wool, or of lambs as fore and hind quarters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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