S.H. Long to K. Pearson, 18th Sept. 1907.- External URL
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Sent From (Definite): Sidney H. LongSent To (Definite): Karl PearsonDate: 18 Sep 1907
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Sent fromSidney H. Long
18 Sep 1907
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‘Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your letter.
You are quite right about the Tamworth being a red pig and the pure bred Derbyshire is entirely black with about ½ dog[?] white hairs at the tip of the tail. The litter referred to belongs to my brother-in-law, Mr Christie; he also is much interested in the suggestion you make about further inbreeding & I think will follow them out. At any rate he says he will not eat the boars.
As you well know farming now-a-days, at any rate in this country, is not a very profitable business, & even when carried on more or less as a hobby the owner likes to try to persuade himself that he is not losing money at it! Mr Christie, however, is what you might call an up-to-date farmer, in that he applies as far as possible, scientific knowledge to practical agrculture, & has as a bailiff a Cambridge graduate who has passed thro’ the Cambridge agricultural course. I will report to you later any further results.
Many years ago I met you on a holiday in Lastingham – [illeg.] – this I expect you have entirely forgotten
Yours very truly
Sidney H. Long.’
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Sent toKarl Pearson
18 Sep 1907
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‘Dear Sir,
Many thanks for your letter.
You are quite right about the Tamworth being a red pig and the pure bred Derbyshire is entirely black with about ½ dog[?] white hairs at the tip of the tail. The litter referred to belongs to my brother-in-law, Mr Christie; he also is much interested in the suggestion you make about further inbreeding & I think will follow them out. At any rate he says he will not eat the boars.
As you well know farming now-a-days, at any rate in this country, is not a very profitable business, & even when carried on more or less as a hobby the owner likes to try to persuade himself that he is not losing money at it! Mr Christie, however, is what you might call an up-to-date farmer, in that he applies as far as possible, scientific knowledge to practical agrculture, & has as a bailiff a Cambridge graduate who has passed thro’ the Cambridge agricultural course. I will report to you later any further results.
Many years ago I met you on a holiday in Lastingham – [illeg.] – this I expect you have entirely forgotten
Yours very truly
Sidney H. Long.’
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