bre. 3 
Few reafons need be adduced to prove, that the 
beft kind of cow for this diftrict is that which will 
bear bard-keeping beft; and particularly that kind 
which will beft bear wintering in a /raw-yard. 
The expence of ay, in attempting to keep up 
the flefh of large, handfome cows, during the winter, 
has tended very much to leflen the cow ftock of 
this diftrict. 
Sunmary of errors in flock.—In fumming up the 
errors in the ftock of this diftrict, it is worthy of 
remark, that the attempts to improve the breed of 
fheep, horfes, and cows, have uniformly been, dy 
enlarging the fixe of the animal; whereas, the only 
animal, in which a real change for the bef? has been 
made in this diftrict, “ the pig,” has been im- 
proved by reducing its ize, and introducing a kind 
that will /ive harder, and that will be jit for ufe at an 
earlier age. 
And, perhaps, this remark will apply as well to 
many other counties, as to Wiltfhire. 
-Errors in the bufbandry of the diftrié?.—The great 
errors in the hufbandry of this diftrict have been 
already noticed to be, the fowing more land with 
corn, and particularly with wheat, than can be pro- 
perly manured with the ftock on the farm; and the 
not making proper provifion either by hay, or green 
crops, to winter all the fheep ftock at home. 
_ Thefe two errors proceed from one caufe, viz. 
an anxiety in farmers to have a certain number of 
acres 
