text:  After commenting upon what this author says of the losses experienced in lambing-time by the southern breeders Mr Stephens pays the following deserved compliment to the intelligent shepherds of Scotland:-- "I would not have noticed these egregious blunders said by Mr Price to be committed by shepherds in a low country like Romney Marsh in Kent so prominently had not Mr Youatt adopted the sentiments of Mr Price in the very particulars quoted above in his excellent treatise on the history and diseases of sheep