1803. On the Modern Improve?nefit of Farm Stock. 



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the fuperior clim«ite and pailures of England, and affording wool, 

 for working up into the tiiicit fabrics of broad clotli ; the other, a 

 more hardy race, of all otliers the t.eft i'uited for improvin^^^ he 

 flieep and wool on the mountains of Scotland, alio carrying woo*, 

 which can be man ufaflu reel into excelleiit cloth. A vvcdder hog, 

 of the Cheviot breed, bred upon one of the mountainous farms be- 

 longing to the Duke of Buccleugh, was fome time ago ilaughtercd 

 for family-ule, after being grazed for twelve months in the low 

 country, without, however, tailing turnips, or anj/ thing but grafs, 

 during the winter, and fpring months ; and when killed, weighed 

 13'- pounds per quarter, and had in him 15-'- pounds of tallow; ti 

 moll extraordinary quantity for fo fmall a Ih'.ep, of little more 

 than a year old. This, hov/evcr, will be nothing thought of by 

 the modern reformers of Hock, who, upon ail occafions, puif cff 

 their improved monilers, of 2c, 23, and 30 pounds the quarter, 

 with their furface coatings of fat, many inches thick, like a feal 

 or Hampfhire hog. But are our butcher-markets indebted to thefe 

 fea-calves in Iheep's clothing? No. Would the gods of lirael, Mr 

 Pitt, or ?flr Dundas, reliili them, even if Hewed in claret or bur- 

 gundy ? No. Do the butcliers commend them ? No. Oi: the con- 

 trary, they celebrate the native beauties of the black-faced Iheep, 

 bred on the mountains, and fattened on the plains of Scotland, as 

 furpaffing all the improved breeds yet introduced : and, in this 

 chorus, will join every judge of good eating, and adept in the an- 

 cient fchool of 



OB. 1 8c 2. Epicuhus. 



Remarks o?i the aho-ve Paper, 



BY THE C02>'DUCT0R. 



This Magazine is '' open to all parties, and influenced by none ;" 

 therefore, though we entertain the higheil refpecl for the gentle- 

 man whofe fvllem is animadverted upon, we have given the above 

 animadverfions a place, and will, wiLh equal plcafure, receive any 

 anfvver from Mr Biodie or his friends. Our worthy correfpon- 

 dent has certainly confidered only one fide of the queition, and we 

 lliall fupply his deficiency. 



With rco^ard to the feedincr of houfe-lamb, w-e bel'eve our cor- 

 refpondent is in the right, therefore pais over that branch of the 

 animadverfions ; but, refpecting the merit of the improved breed 

 of flieep, i.e. thofe of the Leicefter fort (for they are all derived 

 from the breed of l\Ir Bakewell), we are not fure if he has 

 confidered the fubje<Sl in n true farming point of view. That tliey 



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