428 General View of the Agriculture OQt* 



We fhall therefore content ourfelves with ftating, that the quedioa 

 can only be properly decided by a parcel of each kind of ewes (fup- 

 pofe lOo) being depaltured and kept in every refpecl alike, upon 

 lome of thofe high, cxpofed fituations, the height of which is much 

 more elevated, and the herbage coarfer, than the Cheviot paftures, 

 and almoft totally covered with heath or heather {^erica vulgaris^ ; 

 and, at the end of Jive, fix, or [even years, that breed which has 

 brought the greateft number of fheep to market, and made the 

 mod profit* will defervedly be deemed the hardiejly beji, and moji 

 eligible for fuch fituations. 



*' Until fome experiment of this kind determine the matter, we 

 hope we (hall not give offence to cither party by ftating, that we 

 have feen the heath (heep bred with advantage upon higher and 

 coarfer paftures than Common Burn, or thofe other kinds around 

 Cheviot ; and that it may probably turn out, that each breed is par- 

 ticularly adapted to particular fituations ; the one to coarfe, expofed 

 mountains, where the luxury of green herbage is thinly fcattered, or 

 rarely to be found ; the other, to hilly pajlurts, where confiderable 

 portions of verdant furface predominate, fuch as charadlerife the 

 paftoral diftrids round Cheviot.'* 



The practice of milking ewes is very juftly cenfured, and 

 vc are happy to learn that this unprofitable cuftom is going 

 faft into difufe." 



The comparative ftatement betwixt horfes and oxen, for 

 the purpofe of the draught, is given with fo much accuracy, 

 that we cannot refrain from extra6ting the whole of it. If 

 oxen were invariably employed in farm-labour, it is evident 

 that they would occafion a famine in the country, initead of 

 yendenng provifions cheap, as fpeculative men have idly fup- 

 pofed. 



A comparative Statement hetiueen Horfes and Oxen, for the 



purpofe of the Draught. 



** By way of prehminary, it will be neceffary to admit as 

 6ata, that a horfe, which eats 70 bufhels of oats per year, will not 

 confume of other food fo much ;.& an ox that gets no corn * s 

 ibut, in the following eftimatc, we ftiall allow horfes to eat as 



much 



* This is deduced from the following experiments. 



Three 



