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OW N B R A N D F R E E Z E R S


*■— IT*."— **' .C 1 4 4 . S 0 Sheep are Tom’s passport to


TO the urban family on a weekend outing into. the countryside the sheep grazing on the skyline are often “just part of the scen­ e r y . ’’ To the hill farmer like Tom Robinson, chairman of the Clitheroe Branch of the National Far­ mers’ Union, sheep provide the passport to survival on rugged, open mountain grazing. But there is one magi­


cal quality without which the hardy sheep would probably disappear into th e n e x t c o u n ty — hefting. Hefting is the uncanny


homing instinct which the hill sheep shares with the racing pigeon. Although the flock may range over miles of open moor they will still return to that section .which is tradition­ ally their home base. It is an almost magical


quality. Take 100 hill sheep, install them on a


Clitheroe hill and they would probably scatter to the four winds. Hefting is something that cannot be trained — it is in-bred.


T h a t is why h ill


shepherds dread the killer dog — because livestock worrying in hill areas can mean the loss of more than a ewe and her unborn lamb. “ It can wreck breeding


programmes and if older ewes have to be kept on the hill an extra year to make up flock numbers, they are more likely to perish in bad weather,” ' Tom Robinson explains. Tom Robinson and his


family moved to Syke S id e F a rm , Dunsop Bridge, in the Trough-of- Bowland, in 1970 having farmed previously with his brother at Catlow, with whom he is still a partner. The farm ex­ tends to 450 acres of fenced land and nearly 4,000 acres of open moor­ land, much of which was in Yorkshire prior to local government reorganisa­ tion.


Situated as it is in a


North West Water Au­ thority catchment area there are limitations on where stock can be grazed and what land can be tre­ ated with fertilisers.


The farmhouse stands


on what was the site of a traveller’s rest pub on the old drover’s road along­ side a road which brings thousands o f visitors through the valley in summer. Traffic and dogs are the worries for the Robinson family as they shepherd then- flock. The land they farm


ranges from around 500ft. to 1,800ft. above sea level with picture-postcard visual quality. But it’s a hard life for


the farming folk, for the stock and even for fences which, unless treated, rot away within a decade. And with wire costing up to £40 a roll its a major management item on sweeping hillsides. “When we came here


first the ewe flock to which we took had fallen to about 900 head and it


was a long job to build it up to the present breed­ ing flock numbering some 1,500 ewes,” recalls Mr Robinson.


All ewe lambs are win­


tered away on gentler ground because of the rigours of winter in the uplands. Lambing starts at Syke Side Farm seven to 10 days into April and those ewes staying there, over winter stay on the in-bye land. They have


; access to nutrient feed blocks and consume about 21 tons costing some £3,000 over the winter.


There is also a small


herd o f suckler cows, Angus Cross and Blue Greys, and the calves are sold in Clitheroe market at around 9 to 10-months- old.


The hardy hill-sheep,


however, are the mainline enterprise. Part Blackface and part Swaledale the breeding flock is culled hard and most ewes are drafted out at around four years of age. Youth, Mr Robinson


argues, gives hardiness and that is a vital quality in hill country over the winter. At Catlow he and his brother have a stud producing rams for breed­ ing and one of their top sires sold for £14,000 at a Kirkby Stephen sale some time back.


F a rm in g has not


changed dramatically in the Trough-of-Bowland and while traditional faming ensures the con­ tinuing visual quality of the landscape Tom Robin­ son is making an added contribution.


Liming keeps the farm


in good heart, and he has replanted about 20 acres under mixed trees.


In spring, primroses


carpet woodland at Syke Side Farm. Some see it as an invi­


tation for the tourists but it is also a bouquet to those like Tom Robinson and his family who nur­ ture the side and its lives­ tock through the suc­ ceeding winters when the living ain’t easy.


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