BAKEWELL, ROBERT (1725-1795), English agricultur ist, was born at Dishley, Leicestershire, in 1725; in 1760 he took over the management of the estate at Dishley. His main ob ject was to improve the breed of sheep and oxen, and in this he was highly successful, his new Leicestershire breed of sheep attaining within little more than half a century an international reputation, while the Dishley cattle (also known as the new Leicestershire long-horn) became almost as famous. He extended his breeding experiments to horses, producing a new and par ticularly useful type of farm-horse. He was the first to establish the trade in ram-letting on a large scale, and founded the Dishley Society, the object of which was to ensure purity of breed. The value of his own stock was quickly recognized, and in one year he made 1,200 guineas from the letting of a single ram. Bake well's agricultural experiments were not confined to stock-breed ing. His reputation stood high in every detail of farm-manage ment, and as an improver of grass land by systematic irrigation he had no rival. He died on Oct. 1,