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3. That the hill districts of Scotland have been a large 

 source of lean stock. Some of them will more and more feed 

 their own stock than they have yet done, and supplies from 

 some of them, Galloway for instance, will decline. Thus, I am 

 informed by one of the most extensive Galloway dealers, that 

 the quantity of lean stock sent from the three counties, Wigton, 

 Kircudbright, and Dumfries southwards, is at present from 

 13,000 to 14,000 annually, and that * these numbers are likely 

 to diminish rather than increase, as every year the extent of 

 home feeding is increasing.' The Highland districts of Scot- 

 land, however, are likely to supply us in undiminished quantity 

 for many years to come. The stock sold at Falkirk tryst and 

 Doune fair, in the county of Stirling, is a sufficient measure 

 of the Highland supplies ; and the following details respecting 

 these markets, extracted from old files of the two Stirling: 

 papers, I have been enabled by the kindness of a friend to 

 procure :— 



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