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hide, hair, and quality of the beef; the short-horns 

 in the quantity of beef, tallow, and milk. Each 

 breed have long liad, and probably may have, their 

 particular advocates ; but if I may hazard a conjec- 

 ture, is it not probable that both kinds may have 

 their particular advantages in different situations? 

 Why not the thick, firm hides, and long close-set 

 hair of the one kind, be a protection and security 

 against those impetuous winds and heavy rains to 

 which the west coast of this island is so subject ; 

 while the more regular seasons and mild climate 

 upon the east coast, are more suitable to the 

 constitutions of the short-horns ? When I say 

 the long-horns excel the short-horns in the cjua- 

 iity of the beef^ I mean, that preference is only 

 due to the particular variety of long-horiis taken 

 notice of before, as selected, improved, and re- 

 commended by that attentive breeder, ^Ir. Bake- 

 well ; for as to the long-horned breed in common, I 

 am inclined to thiink their beef rather inferior, than 

 ^ superior, to that of the generality of short-horns ; 

 and there is little doubt but a breed of short-horned 

 cattle might be selected, equal, if not superior, to 

 ,€ven that very kindly-fleshed sort of Mr. Bakevv^ell's; 

 provided any able breeder, or body of breeders, 

 would pay as much attention to these, as Mr. Bake- 

 well and his neighbours have done to the long- 

 horns. But it has hitherto been the misfortune of 

 the short-horned breeders to pursue the largest and 

 biggest boned ones for the best, without considering 

 that those are the best that pay the most money for 

 a given quantity of food. However, the ideas of 

 our short-horned breeders being now more enlarged, 

 and their minds more open to conviction, we may 

 hope in a few years to see great improvements made 

 in that breed of cattle. 



' But notwithstanding these two breeds have hi- 

 Itherto been in possesion of the best part of the 

 {island, yet I am inclined to think that the Galloway 



