A BIT OF A FARMER
LORD INVERCHAPEL, Britain’s Ambassador to Washington, who told a meeting of sceptical midwestern farmers that he was a bit of a farming man himself. Their doubts began to break down when he revealed that he had 2000 sheep grazing _ on 3000 Argyll acres in the Scottish Highlands.
The farmers were convinced when Lord Inverchapel broke into Scottish sheep farmers’ vernacular. Americans, he said, called a ram a buck, but in Scotland it was a tup. A hog is a young sheep from the time it stops being a lamb. After shearing, the she hog becomes a gimmer—until it becomes a ewe.
If after tupping she does not lamb, she is called a yill grimmer—an ignoble status in the sheep world where motherhood is highly prized. Among the males, a tup hog which does not mature into a super hog becomes a diment (a wether). If a tup hog is distinguished he is promoted to the rank of tup or buck.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 3
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